MIA @ HOU
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs Ronel Blanco - 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Xavier Edwards vs Bryan Abreu - 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Liam Hicks vs Bryan Abreu
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.
- 1Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Heriberto Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Christian Walker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.