CWS @ STL
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 127 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Leo Bernal vs David Sandlin - 2-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
Andrew Benintendi vs George Soriano - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Kyle Teel vs Michael McGreevy
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kyle Teel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Ramón Urías — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.