DET @ KC
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
Colt Keith vs Michael Wacha - 2+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged
Riley Greene vs Michael Wacha - 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Burch Smith
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Zach McKinstry — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.