SF @ KC
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 116 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 107 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+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Bryce Eldridge vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Drew Gilbert vs Seth Lugo - 3-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jung Hoo Lee vs Seth Lugo
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.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Cavanaugh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.