KC @ CIN
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Lane Thomas vs Andrew Abbott - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Zach Maxwell - 3+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Andrew Abbott
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Jac Caglianone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Blake Dunn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.