CLE @ ATH
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brett Harris vs Hunter Gaddis - 2+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tyler Soderstrom vs Slade Cecconi - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Carlos Cortes vs Slade Cecconi
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Angel Martínez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.