NYM @ WSH
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 210 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 190 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▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jorbit Vivas vs Christian Scott - 2+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball
José Tena vs Luke Weaver - 3+0.19▲12 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brett Baty vs Paxton Schultz
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.