DET @ BAL
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Riley Greene vs Keegan Akin - 2-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Dillon Dingler vs Chris Bassitt - 3-0.13▼2 · 1-1 ball called strike
Coby Mayo vs Jack Flaherty
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.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Gage Workman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.