BAL @ NYY
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Will Warren - 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Albert Suárez - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Albert Suárez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.