CIN @ PIT
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Marcell Ozuna vs Connor Phillips - 2+0.21▼2 · 3-0 strike called ball
Ryan O'Hearn vs Rhett Lowder - 3+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Carmen Mlodzinski
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 · 3 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.
- 2Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — 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.