TEX @ AZ
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike
Jordan Lawlar vs Robert Garcia - 2-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Wyatt Langford vs Derek Law - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jake Burger vs Derek Law
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.