AZ @ CHC
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ketel Marte vs Ben Brown - 2+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Moisés Ballesteros vs Ryne Nelson - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Michael Busch vs Taylor Clarke
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.