SF @ STL
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 175 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
- 1-0.23▲7 · 0-2 ball called strike
Drew Cavanaugh vs Brycen Mautz - 2+0.21▲3 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Grant McCray vs Andre Pallante - 3-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Brett Harris vs Brycen Mautz
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.