HOU @ NYY
Home plate: John Tumpane
“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”
What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Trent Grisham vs Hayden Wesneski - 2-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
George Lombard Jr. vs Hayden Wesneski - 3-0.09▲8 · 0-0 ball called strike
Taylor Trammell vs Justin Topa
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.