LAA @ TOR
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ernie Clement vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Jeff Hoffman - 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Myles Straw vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.