CHC @ CIN
Home plate: D.J. Reyburn
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▲3 · 3-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nico Hoerner vs Rhett Lowder - 2-0.13▼2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Oswaldo Cabrera vs David Peterson - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs Rhett Lowder
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.