PIT @ CIN
Home plate: Jacob Metz
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Dane Myers vs Mitch Keller - 2-0.28▲7 · 1-2 ball called strike
Endy Rodríguez vs Brock Burke - 3-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged
Esmerlyn Valdez vs Chase Burns
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.