CIN @ MIA
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Liam Hicks vs Rhett Lowder - 2+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Xavier Edwards vs Rhett Lowder - 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Spencer Steer vs Max Meyer
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2P.J. Higgins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.