CHC @ CIN
Home plate: Sean Barber
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Sean Barber called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball
Carson Kelly vs Julian Aguiar - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Eugenio Suárez vs Javier Assad - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Michael Conforto vs Julian Aguiar
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Eugenio Suárez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.