CIN @ MIL
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Dane Myers vs Robert Gasser - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
William Contreras vs Nick Lodolo - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gary Sánchez vs Nick Lodolo
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.