LAA @ HOU
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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▲7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Steven Okert - 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nolan Schanuel vs Bennett Sousa - 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Steven Okert
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Nick Allen — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5LaMonte Wade Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.