AZ @ SF
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Waldschmidt vs Trevor McDonald - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Ryan Waldschmidt vs Trevor McDonald - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Ildemaro Vargas vs Caleb Kilian
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.