ATH @ CWS
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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
- 1-0.69▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike
Drew Romo vs Gage Jump - 2+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Munetaka Murakami vs Gage Jump - 3-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Colby Thomas vs Grant Taylor
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Colby Thomas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.