ATH @ SD
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“The challenge cart got its steps in.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Henry Bolte vs Walker Buehler - 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jeff McNeil vs Walker Buehler - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Henry Bolte vs Walker Buehler
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.
- 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Walker Buehler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brent Rooker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Shea Langeliers — 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.