MIN @ TEX
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez 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+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Elias Díaz vs Zebby Matthews - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Kumar Rocker - 3-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Royce Lewis vs Cal Quantrill
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.