NYY @ SEA
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The challenge cart got its steps in.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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
- 1-0.69▲3 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
José Caballero vs Luis Castillo - 2-0.39▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Victor Robles vs Ryan Weathers - 3-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Mitch Garver vs Jake Bird
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Giancarlo Stanton — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.