COL @ ATH
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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 ball called strike
Braxton Fulford vs Gage Jump - 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Cole Carrigg vs Hogan Harris - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Tyler Soderstrom vs Jeff Criswell
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1TJ Rumfield — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.