CIN @ TOR
Home plate: John Bacon
“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
What this shows — how John Bacon called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brett Bateman vs Zach McCambley - 2-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Myles Straw vs Brandon Williamson - 3-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Héctor Rodríguez vs Max Scherzer
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Myles Straw — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Will Banfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Héctor Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Will Banfield — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.