CIN @ CHC
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 190 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 181 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▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nico Hoerner vs Julian Garcia - 2-0.39▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
JJ Bleday vs Kevin Gausman - 3+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Carson Kelly vs Tony Santillan
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.