CIN @ LAD
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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
- 1-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike
JJ Bleday vs Alex Vesia - 2-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Sal Stewart vs Emmet Sheehan - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Freddie Freeman vs Brandon Williamson
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.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.