CIN @ TEX
Home plate: Bill Miller
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 158 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
- 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
TJ Friedl vs Jack Leiter - 2-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
Spencer Steer vs Jack Leiter - 3-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Robert Garcia
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.