BOS @ MIN
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike
Ryan Jeffers vs Connelly Early - 2+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Ceddanne Rafaela vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ryan Jeffers vs Connelly Early
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.