KC @ BAL
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
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What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Grant Wolfram - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Leody Taveras vs Noah Cameron - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Carter Jensen vs Grant Wolfram
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.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.