SF @ LAD
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 156 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Emmet Sheehan - 2-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Miguel Rojas vs Landen Roupp - 3-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Jung Hoo Lee vs Alex Vesia
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Drew Gilbert — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.