WSH @ CLE
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Tanner Bibee - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Tanner Bibee - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Chase DeLauter vs Zack Littell
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.