LAA @ SEA
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Lazaro Montes vs Sam Bachman - 2+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Reid Detmers - 3-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jhonny Pereda vs Luke Murphy
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.