SEA @ LAA
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 139 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. 129 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
- 1-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Julio Rodríguez vs Reid Detmers - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Christian Moore vs Cooper Criswell - 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
J.P. Crawford vs Reid Detmers
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Julio Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.