MIL @ CIN
Home plate: Charlie Ramos
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Charlie Ramos called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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· challenged ✓
Garrett Mitchell vs Andrew Abbott - 2+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
William Contreras vs Tejay Antone - 3-0.30▲6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Andrew Vaughn vs Tejay Antone
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.
- 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.