CIN @ PHI
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
JJ Bleday vs Tim Mayza - 2+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
P.J. Higgins vs Aaron Nola - 3+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elly De La Cruz vs Tim Mayza
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1P.J. Higgins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.