DET @ KC
Home plate: Manny Gonzalez
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 111 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 96 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+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Carter Jensen vs Drew Anderson - 2-0.28▼7 · 1-2 ball called strike
Tyler Tolbert vs Drew Sommers - 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Spencer Torkelson vs Michael Wacha
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Colt Keith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.