COL @ CIN
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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+0.21▲3 · 3-0 strike called ball
Brenton Doyle vs Brandon Williamson - 2+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
Nathaniel Lowe vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Kyle Karros vs Brandon Williamson
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.