ATL @ AZ
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ozzie Albies vs Ryne Nelson - 2+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jordan Lawlar vs Reynaldo López - 3+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Austin Riley vs Joe Ross
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.