ATL @ MIL
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jackson Chourio vs Brent Suter - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Ozzie Albies vs Jacob Misiorowski - 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Michael Harris II vs Jacob Misiorowski
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Joey Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis Lara — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.