CIN @ TB
Home plate: Ryan Blakney
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Ryan Blakney called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ryan Vilade vs Brandon Williamson - 2+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nathaniel Lowe vs Nick Martinez - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
TJ Friedl vs Nick Martinez
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2P.J. Higgins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.