ATH @ PHI
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Alec Bohm vs Luis Severino - 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Tyler Soderstrom vs Jhoan Duran - 3+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Bryce Harper vs Luis Severino
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.