PIT @ LAD
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
- 1-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Nick Yorke vs Alex Vesia - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Teoscar Hernández vs Carmen Mlodzinski - 3+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Brandon Lowe vs Blake Snell
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.
- 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.