COL @ DET
Home plate: James Jean
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how James Jean called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Colt Keith vs Gabriel Hughes - 2+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Riley Greene vs Jimmy Herget - 3-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged
Adael Amador vs Jackson Jobe
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Adael Amador — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hao-Yu Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.