DET @ SD
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Ramón Laureano vs Tarik Skubal - 2+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jake Cronenworth vs Tarik Skubal - 3-0.10▲5 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Javier Báez vs Ron Marinaccio
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Javier Báez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.