CWS @ KC
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Jonathan India vs Anthony Kay - 2+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Anthony Kay - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Seth Lugo
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.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Seranthony Domínguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.