SEA @ LAA
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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
- 1-0.30▲5 · 3-1 ball called strike
Taylor Ward vs Sammy Peralta - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Mitch Farris - 3-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Randy Arozarena vs Yusei Kikuchi
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.
- 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.