DET @ TOR
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 186 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. 178 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
- 1-0.69▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Beau Brieske - 2+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Zach McKinstry vs José Soriano - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Riley Greene vs José Soriano
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.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Brett Bateman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.