WSH @ AZ
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Daylen Lile vs Michael Soroka - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Curtis Mead vs Michael Soroka - 3-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Waldschmidt vs Riley Cornelio
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Corbin Carroll — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.