TEX @ HOU
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Peter Lambert - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Peter Lambert - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Allen vs Nathan Eovaldi
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Osuna — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5César Salazar — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.