CLE @ ATH
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jeff McNeil vs Parker Messick - 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
Bo Naylor vs Joel Kuhnel - 3-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Travis Bazzana vs Aaron Civale
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Daniel Schneemann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.