DET @ SEA
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.69▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball
Zach McKinstry vs Emerson Hancock - 2+0.69▲9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Javier Báez vs Seranthony Domínguez - 3-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Dominic Canzone vs Yilber Díaz
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brendan Donovan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Javier Báez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.