SD @ BAL
Home plate: Felix Neon
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What this shows — how Felix Neon called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Manny Machado vs Anthony Nunez - 2+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Manny Machado vs Trevor Rogers - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Samuel Basallo vs Adrian Morejon
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.