HOU @ NYY
Home plate: John Tumpane
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how John Tumpane called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Yordan Alvarez vs Gerrit Cole - 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Trent Grisham vs Hayden Wesneski - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
George Lombard Jr. vs Hayden Wesneski
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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.