CHC @ KC
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Salvador Perez vs Ryan Zeferjahn - 2-0.30▲3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Randy Dobnak - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Ryan Zeferjahn
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.
- 1Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nick Loftin — 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.