Cleveland Guardians at Los Angeles Dodgers

The Cleveland Guardians secured a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium, with a pivotal aspect of the game being the effective use of automatic ball-strike (ABS) reviews. Of the four total challenges issued, three were overturned, underscoring the critical role that ABS technology played in adjusting pitch counts that ultimately shaped key moments on the mound and at the plate.

Both teams were active with challenges throughout the game, although the Dodgers led in success rate, having all two of their challenges overturned, while Cleveland saw one of their two efforts reversed. The plate umpire's consistency was closely interrogated, with three out of four calls being overturned, suggesting there were meaningful discrepancies in ball-strike judgments that impacted the game flow. Importantly, every challenge involved pitch-location data, reliably supporting the ABS decisions and giving confidence in these mid-at-bat corrections.

The most critical ABS interventions came late in the game, with two separate calls changing counts on Dodgers’ hitter Teoscar Hernández in the seventh and ninth innings. These count adjustments—from 1-3 to 2-2 and from 0-1 to 1-0—occurred just as the Guardians held a comfortable lead, effectively altering the perceived strike zone and the trajectory of those plate appearances. Early in the bottom of the first, an overturned call against Steven Kwan also adjusted the count favorably for the Guardians in a scoreless situation, helping set the tone for their offense.