CIN @ SF
Home plate: Brennan Miller
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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
- 1-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Turner Hill vs Brady Singer - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Turner Hill vs Brady Singer - 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Eugenio Suárez vs Sam Hentges
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.