CIN @ MIN
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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
- 1-0.69▲6 · 3-2 ball called strike
Sal Stewart vs Joe Ryan - 2-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Cole Sands - 3-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Elly De La Cruz vs Cole Sands
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.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.