CHC @ CLE
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Joey Cantillo - 2+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs Joey Cantillo - 3+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Gabriel Arias vs Colin Rea
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ian Happ — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.