CLE @ TB
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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
- 1-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Travis Bazzana vs Nick Martinez - 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Hunter Feduccia vs Tanner Bibee - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-0 strike called ball
Victor Mesa Jr. vs Tanner Bibee
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.