STL @ MIL
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Chad Patrick - 2-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Victor Scott II vs Aaron Ashby - 3-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryan Torres vs Trevor Megill
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Victor Scott II — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Bryan Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.