SD @ ATL
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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
- 1-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Chris Sale - 2+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Mike Yastrzemski vs Matt Waldron - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Xander Bogaerts vs Tyler Kinley
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Fernando Tatis Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.