TEX @ LAA
Home plate: Nick Mahrley
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Nick Mahrley called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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
- 1-0.13▲3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jonah Bride vs Reid Detmers - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Justin Foscue vs Reid Detmers - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jake Burger vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.