PIT @ SD
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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 strike called ball
Oneil Cruz vs Michael King - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryan Reynolds vs Michael King - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Ty France vs Paul Skenes
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.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.