TEX @ ATH
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Cody Freeman vs Luis Medina - 2+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Tyler Soderstrom vs Kumar Rocker - 3+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Burger vs Gage Jump
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Burger — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Hogan Harris — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.