HOU @ KC
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
Jose Altuve vs Noah Cameron - 2+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
Lane Thomas vs Enyel De Los Santos - 3-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Christian Walker vs Daniel Lynch IV
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Christian Walker — 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.