LAD @ CWS
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
Andy Pages vs Sean Burke - 2+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Dalton Rushing vs Sean Burke - 3-0.28▼7 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Miguel Vargas vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Miguel Vargas — 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.