SEA @ ATH
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“Everybody has a Tuesday like this one.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Rob Refsnyder vs Gage Jump - 2-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Carlos Cortes vs Emerson Hancock - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Shea Langeliers vs Emerson Hancock
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Julio Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.