MIL @ PIT
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Rafael Flores Jr. vs Logan Henderson - 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Christian Yelich vs Jared Jones - 3-0.10▼7 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Konnor Griffin vs Antonio Senzatela
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brice Turang — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Konnor Griffin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.