NYY @ CLE
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 218 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 204 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▲2 · 3-2 ball called strike
Spencer Jones vs Gavin Williams - 2-0.30▲10 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Max Schuemann vs Shawn Armstrong - 3+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
David Fry vs Brent Headrick
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Max Schuemann — 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.