CIN @ STL
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Spencer Steer vs Kyle Leahy - 2-0.23▲5 · 0-2 ball called strike
Elly De La Cruz vs Kyle Leahy - 3-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Pedro Pagés vs Andrew Abbott
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.
- 1Noelvi Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.