WSH @ SD
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“One of those nights the challenge system was invented for.”
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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
- 1-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike
James Wood vs Casey Mize - 2+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Casey Mize - 3+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Freddy Fermin vs Jared Simpson
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.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2CJ Abrams — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Dustin Harris — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Dylan Crews — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.