TEX @ HOU
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
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What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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+0.21▼3 · 3-0 strike called ball
Taylor Trammell vs Kumar Rocker - 2+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
Christian Walker vs Ben Peoples - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jose Altuve vs Kumar Rocker
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.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Christian Vázquez — 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.