CIN @ MIL
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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▼8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Christian Yelich vs Sam Moll - 2-0.23▼8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Brice Turang vs Tejay Antone - 3-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Christian Yelich vs Chase Burns
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 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 strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Eugenio Suárez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.