WSH @ COL
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
James Wood vs Kyle Freeland - 2+0.09▼2 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Tyler Freeman vs Andrew Alvarez - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Kyle Karros vs Andrew Alvarez
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.
- 1Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Kyle Freeland — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.