STL @ CIN
Home plate: John Tumpane
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What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Sal Stewart vs Kyle Leahy - 2-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
JJ Wetherholt vs Chase Petty - 3+0.23▼9 · 0-2 strike called ball
JJ Bleday vs JoJo Romero
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 · 3 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.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4P.J. Higgins — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.