SEA @ TEX
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Bryce Miller - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brandon Nimmo vs Michael Rucker - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Alejandro Osuna vs Eduard Bazardo
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dominic Canzone — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Colt Emerson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.