COL @ NYY
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 135 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+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Cole Carrigg vs Will Warren - 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Hunter Goodman vs Will Warren - 3+0.19▼7 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
José Caballero 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
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.
- 1Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.