MIA @ WSH
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Curtis Mead vs Lake Bachar - 2+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Owen Caissie vs Richard Lovelady - 3+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jorbit Vivas vs Ryan Gusto
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Richard Lovelady — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Owen Caissie — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.