ATH @ TEX
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Tyler Soderstrom vs Kumar Rocker - 2+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Brent Rooker vs Kumar Rocker - 3+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Carlos Cortes vs Kumar Rocker
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andrew McCutchen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.