KC @ ATL
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Robert Suarez - 2+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Eli White vs Bailey Falter - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jonah Heim vs Cole Ragans
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.