CWS @ DET
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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▼1 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gleyber Torres vs Sean Newcomb - 2-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Miguel Vargas vs Jackson Jobe - 3+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ben Malgeri vs José Urquidy
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Gleyber Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Braden Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.