WSH @ DET
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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
- 1-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
James Wood vs Keider Montero - 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jorbit Vivas vs Keider Montero - 3-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gleyber Torres vs DJ Herz
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.
- 1Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Dylan Crews — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.