CIN @ SF
Home plate: Chris Conroy
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elly De La Cruz vs Carson Whisenhunt - 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
Eugenio Suárez vs Ryan Walker - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Matt McLain vs Carson Whisenhunt
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Dylan Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.