AZ @ STL
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Masyn Winn vs Jonathan Loáisiga - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Alec Burleson vs Merrill Kelly - 3+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball
Blaze Jordan vs Merrill Kelly
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.
- 1Lars Nootbaar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Adrian Del Castillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.