LAD @ SD
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Freddie Freeman vs Michael King - 2+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Max Muncy vs Michael King - 3-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ramón Laureano vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Freddie Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.