LAA @ TOR
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Vaughn Grissom vs Trey Yesavage - 2-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Addison Barger vs Jack Kochanowicz - 3-0.19▼6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jesús Sánchez vs Mitch Farris
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Vaughn Grissom — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.