CWS @ KC
Home plate: Nick Mahrley
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Nick Mahrley called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Maikel Garcia vs Grant Taylor - 2+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Noah Cameron - 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Colson Montgomery vs Nick Mears
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.
- 1Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.