LAD @ WSH
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Jacob Young vs Emmet Sheehan - 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jorbit Vivas vs Emmet Sheehan - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Alex Freeland vs Gus Varland
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Daylen Lile — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis García Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.