CIN @ PHI
Home plate: Lance Barksdale
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Lance Barksdale called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
JJ Bleday vs José Alvarado - 2-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Edmundo Sosa vs Nick Lodolo - 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
JJ Bleday vs Andrew Painter
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edmundo Sosa — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.