MIA @ MIL
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 137 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Christian Yelich vs Eury Pérez - 2-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gary Sánchez vs Eury Pérez - 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Joey Ortiz vs Eury Pérez
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Christian Yelich — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.