CHC @ SF
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ian Happ vs Landen Roupp - 2+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carson Kelly vs Landen Roupp - 3+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Michael Busch vs Landen Roupp
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.