WSH @ STL
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Daylen Lile vs Kyle Leahy - 2-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Bryan Torres vs Brad Lord - 3-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Dylan Crews vs Cade Winquest
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.
- 1Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Leo Bernal — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Dylan Crews — 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.