BAL @ SEA
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“A few he'd want back, and the grade says so.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Kyle Bradish - 2-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Pete Alonso vs George Kirby - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Miles Mastrobuoni vs Kyle Bradish
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Connor Joe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.