TB @ BOS
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Andruw Monasterio vs Shane McClanahan - 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jonathan Aranda vs Greg Weissert - 3+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Andruw Monasterio vs Chris Roycroft
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.
- 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.