KC @ ATL
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jac Caglianone vs Grant Holmes - 2-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
Maikel Garcia vs Didier Fuentes - 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Maikel Garcia vs Grant Holmes
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dominic Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.