KC @ PIT
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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▼5 · 0-2 ball called strike
Oneil Cruz vs Noah Cameron - 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Bubba Chandler
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.