SEA @ COL
Home plate: Mike Estabrook
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
TJ Rumfield vs José A. Ferrer - 2+0.21▼5 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Hunter Goodman vs Bryan Woo - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-0 strike called ball
TJ Rumfield vs Gabe Speier
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Karros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.