PIT @ MIL
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Esmerlyn Valdez vs DL Hall - 2-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Brandon Lowe vs Chad Patrick - 3+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Garrett Mitchell vs Evan Sisk
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.