LAD @ LAA
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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
Max Muncy vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Shohei Ohtani vs Grayson Rodriguez - 3-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Freddie Freeman 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
3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.