TEX @ STL
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brandon Nimmo vs Dustin May - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Brandon Nimmo vs Dustin May - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Alec Burleson 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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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.
- 2Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nicky Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.