NYY @ SEA
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Julio Rodríguez vs Max Fried - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Victor Robles vs Max Fried - 3-0.13▼7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Julio Rodríguez vs Max Fried
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Max Fried — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Leo Rivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.