TEX @ BAL
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▲6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Andrew McCutchen vs Trevor Rogers - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Evan Carter vs Albert Suárez - 3-0.21▲3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ezequiel Duran vs Trevor Rogers
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Andrew McCutchen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Samuel Basallo — 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.