CIN @ MIL
Home plate: Mark Ripperger
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Mark Ripperger called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brice Turang vs Rhett Lowder - 2-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Jackson Chourio vs Rhett Lowder - 3-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Sal Stewart vs Brandon Sproat
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.