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Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Victor Caratini vs Eric Lauer - 2-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Austin Martin vs Eric Lauer - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
George Springer vs Joe Ryan
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Davis Schneider — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Vladimir Guerrero 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.