PIT @ DET
Home plate: Jonathan Parra
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What this shows — how Jonathan Parra called the 188 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 180 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
Brandon Lowe vs Andrew Sears - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Brett Callahan vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Eduardo Valencia vs Evan Sisk
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 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 strike: overturned.
- 2Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Ben Malgeri — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.