MIN @ WSH
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 152 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▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Richard Lovelady - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
José Tena vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Anthony Banda
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.