NYY @ BOS
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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
- 1-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Paul Goldschmidt vs Connelly Early - 2+0.20▲9 · 2-1 strike called ball
Anthony Volpe vs Aroldis Chapman - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Connelly Early
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.