CIN @ STL
Home plate: John Tumpane
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Rhett Lowder - 2+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Rhett Lowder - 3+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Lars Nootbaar vs Chris Paddack
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.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.