MIN @ AZ
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Victor Caratini vs Kevin Ginkel - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Trevor Larnach vs Ryan Thompson - 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jordan Lawlar vs Connor Prielipp
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.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.