STL @ CIN
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Everson Pereira vs Luis Mey - 2-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Quinn Mathews - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Iván Herrera vs Kent Emanuel
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Michael Toglia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Everson Pereira — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.