LAA @ WSH
Home plate: Steven Jaschinski
“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”
What this shows — how Steven Jaschinski called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 150 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs Andrew Alvarez - 2+0.10▼9 · 0-1 strike called ball
James Wood vs Ben Joyce - 3-0.09▲8 · 0-0 ball called strike
Christian Moore vs Brad Lord
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Harry Ford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.