KC @ HOU
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cam Smith vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged
Carter Jensen vs Miguel Ullola - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Miguel Ullola
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.