TEX @ STL
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ezequiel Duran vs Andre Pallante - 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
José Fermín vs MacKenzie Gore - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Thomas Saggese vs MacKenzie Gore
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.
- 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5José Fermín — 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.