COL @ ATL
Home plate: Tom Hanahan
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Tom Hanahan called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball
TJ Rumfield vs Ray Kerr - 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
TJ Rumfield vs Ray Kerr - 3-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ha-Seong Kim vs Juan Mejia
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Connor Norby — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Ha-Seong Kim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.