BOS @ NYY
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Amed Rosario vs Payton Tolle - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Wilyer Abreu vs Cam Schlittler - 3+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Spencer Jones vs Payton Tolle
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.
- 2Amed Rosario — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.