SEA @ KC
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Cole Young vs Stephen Kolek - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jac Caglianone vs George Kirby - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isaac Collins vs Nick Davila
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.