ATH @ SEA
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Nick Kurtz vs Logan Gilbert - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Logan Gilbert - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
J.P. Crawford vs Aaron Civale
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.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.