ATL @ AZ
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Mike Yastrzemski vs Michael Soroka - 2-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged
Michael Harris II vs Paul Sewald - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Drake Baldwin vs Michael Soroka
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Michael Harris II — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.