NYY @ DET
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Casey Mize - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Kyle Finnegan - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Matt Vierling vs Carlos Rodón
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.