CWS @ TB
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 133 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▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Anthony Kay - 2+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
Junior Caminero vs Anthony Kay - 3+0.10▼5 · 0-1 strike called ball
Yandy Díaz vs Anthony Kay
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Sam Antonacci — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.