MIN @ TEX
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Wyatt Langford vs Joe Ryan - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Joc Pederson vs Joe Ryan - 3-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Wyatt Langford vs Joe Ryan
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.