PIT @ CIN
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 172 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Bryan Reynolds vs Rhett Lowder - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Tyler Stephenson vs Hunter Barco - 3-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
JJ Bleday vs Hunter Barco
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Eugenio Suárez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.