Anthony Heron

Houston had the go-ahead run on third with two outs.

Two strikes on the batter, Paredes.

And there was a pitch at the bottom of the zone that ABS would have called a strike, judging by how it came through on the game cast that Major League Baseball puts out.

And Logan O'Hoppy decided not to use the challenge there.

He felt it wasn't going to be reversed when he caught the ball.

Of course, the ABS showed it would have been.

And the next pitch, Isak Paredes lines a base hit to give the Astros the lead and subsequently win the game.

So it became a big moment that, you know, Logan didn't use the challenge that was available to him.

One pitch later, the tie is broken and the Angels are behind when if he had used it, that inning would have been over.

They would have gone to the ninth inning with the top of their order up in a tie game and a chance to take the lead from there.

So it was really interesting to have that conversation with

This early in the season, especially because we don't have a lot of data either.

We don't know how many runs are being saved.

We don't know how many at bats are really changing.

You know, we know that there's been a number of overturned calls and, you know, roughly 50% of the calls that have been challenged have been overturned.

But we also don't know about the ones that maybe could have been challenged that weren't.

There's just a lot of data that I think is going to come out over the next few months that we don't have access to yet.

And, you know, the catchers are more successful than the hitters right now in terms of getting the challenges correct.

So how many defensive runs are being saved?

How many offensive runs are being lost?