CWS @ TOR
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 113 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 105 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▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Shane Bieber - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Teel vs Jeff Hoffman - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Jonatan Clase vs Davis Martin
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.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.