PIT @ TOR
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike
Esmerlyn Valdez vs Louis Varland - 2-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
Yohendrick Piñango vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Gonzales vs Kevin Gausman
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jhostynxon Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.