BAL @ NYY
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
Aaron Judge vs Trey Gibson - 2+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Wells vs Trey Gibson - 3+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Aaron Judge vs Trey Gibson
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.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.