CWS @ CHC
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 148 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+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Aaron Civale - 2+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Pedro Ramírez vs Sean Newcomb - 3+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Randal Grichuk vs Aaron Civale
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.