COL @ MIN
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 106 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 101 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▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Karros vs Connor Prielipp - 2+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Byron Buxton vs Ryan Feltner - 3-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Kody Clemens vs Juan Mejia
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Braxton Fulford — 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.