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Home plate: Marvin Hudson
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What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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+0.21▲1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Brandon Nimmo vs Walbert Ureña - 2-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Wade Meckler vs Jacob deGrom - 3-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Jacob deGrom
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.
- 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.