KC @ TOR
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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▼6 · 0-2 ball called strike
Jesús Sánchez vs Randy Dobnak - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Brett Bateman vs Randy Dobnak - 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jesús Sánchez vs Randy Dobnak
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.
- 1Jac Caglianone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.