NYM @ ATL
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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
- 1-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Mauricio Dubón vs A.J. Minter - 2+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Bo Bichette vs Grant Holmes - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ozzie Albies vs Christian Scott
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.