CLE @ CIN
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Gavin Williams - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Steven Kwan vs Jose Franco - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jose Trevino vs Daniel Espino
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nathaniel Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.