CIN @ WSH
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dylan Crews vs Chase Burns - 2+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
Matt McLain vs Yovanny Cruz - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
CJ Abrams 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
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.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dylan Crews — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Jorbit Vivas — 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.