BAL @ CLE
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Leody Taveras vs Erik Sabrowski - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Kyle Manzardo vs Chris Bassitt - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Bo Naylor vs Chris Bassitt
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.