DET @ CLE
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
James Outman vs Cade Smith - 2-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
Wenceel Pérez vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Spencer Torkelson vs Joey Cantillo
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.
- 1Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2David Fry — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3James Outman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.