SEA @ ATH
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Hogan Harris - 2+0.13▲5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Josh Naylor vs Scott Blewett - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jhonny Pereda vs Hogan Harris
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.
- 1Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Michael Arroyo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Brian Serven — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.