NYY @ CWS
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 163 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▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike
Chase Meidroth vs Ryan Weathers - 2-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ben Rice vs Sean Burke - 3-0.21▲11 · 3-0 ball called strike
Paul Goldschmidt vs Seranthony Domínguez
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 5 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Everson Pereira — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Anthony Volpe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.