ATH @ CIN
Home plate: Ryan Additon
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Ryan Additon called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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
- 1-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Mason Barnett - 2-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Héctor Rodríguez vs Mason Barnett - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Seth Johnson
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.
- 1Brian Serven — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.