DET @ SD
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▲1 · 3-2 ball called strike
Spencer Torkelson vs Randy Vásquez - 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Gleyber Torres vs Kyle Hart - 3-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike
Gavin Sheets vs Connor Seabold
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Cronenworth — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Fernando Tatis Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.