HOU @ CIN
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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
- 1-0.69▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isaac Paredes vs Nick Lodolo - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ke'Bryan Hayes vs Mike Burrows - 3+0.19▲8 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Yordan Alvarez vs Tejay Antone
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Will Benson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.