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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 128 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Hunter Feduccia vs Brandon Williamson - 2-0.23▲6 · 0-2 ball called strike
JJ Bleday vs Alex Vesia - 3-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Sal Stewart vs Emmet Sheehan
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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.