SD @ CLE
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Nathaniel Lowe vs Jeremiah Estrada - 2-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
Brayan Rocchio vs Adrian Morejon - 3+0.10▼8 · 0-1 strike called ball
Steven Kwan vs Adrian Morejon
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.