TB @ SEA
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
Weston Wilson vs Ian Seymour - 2-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
Taylor Ward vs Ian Seymour - 3-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jonathan Aranda vs Emerson Hancock
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Randy Arozarena — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.