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Home plate: Austin Jones
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What this shows — how Austin Jones called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jose Siri vs Connor Prielipp - 2+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Denzer Guzman vs Connor Prielipp - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Wade Meckler vs Tommy Nance
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.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.