MIL @ STL
Home plate: Emil Jimenez
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Andrew Vaughn vs Kyle Leahy - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Sal Frelick vs Kyle Leahy - 3-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jordan Walker vs Chad Patrick
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.