COL @ CIN
Home plate: Carlos Torres
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Carlos Torres called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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
Matt McLain vs Kyle Freeland - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Edouard Julien vs Brock Burke - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Tyler Stephenson vs Kyle Freeland
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 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 strike: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.