CIN @ NYM
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brett Baty vs Nick Lodolo - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Nathaniel Lowe vs Nolan McLean - 3-0.09▲6 · 0-0 ball called strike
Elly De La Cruz vs Jonathan Pintaro
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.
- 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carson Benge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Tyler Stephenson — 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.