AZ @ MIL
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 191 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Alek Thomas vs Brandon Sproat - 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Gary Sánchez vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
Jake Bauers vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Greg Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Adrian Del Castillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Adrian Del Castillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.