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. He got 130 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
- 1-0.19▲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), not our error.