MIL @ SD
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Kyle Harrison - 2-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Walker Buehler - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Manny Machado vs Kyle Harrison
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Fernando Tatis Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.