PHI @ CIN
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Not the sharpest, and the grade agrees.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 210 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 192 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▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
JJ Bleday vs Alan Rangel - 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Chase Burns - 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Eugenio Suárez vs José Alvarado
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.
- 1Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Gabriel Rincones Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.