STL @ MIL
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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
- 1-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Christian Yelich vs Andre Pallante - 2-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Leo Bernal vs DL Hall - 3-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Iván Herrera vs DL Hall
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.