PIT @ LAD
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Jared Triolo vs Tarik Skubal - 2+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mookie Betts vs Camilo Doval - 3+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jake Mangum vs Tanner Scott
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tarik Skubal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ben Rortvedt — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.