CIN @ NYY
Home plate: Chris Segal
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tyler Stephenson vs Jake Bird - 2-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Cam Schlittler - 3+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Tyler Stephenson vs Jake Bird
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.