MIA @ AZ
Home plate: Austin Jones
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 180 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
- 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Pavin Smith vs Sandy Alcantara - 2+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Tim Tawa vs Tyler Zuber - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Pavin Smith vs Sandy Alcantara
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kevin Ginkel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Esteury Ruiz — 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), not our error.