CHC @ AZ
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 123 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Corbin Carroll vs Matthew Boyd - 2+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Michael Busch vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Brandyn Garcia
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.
- 1Eduardo Rodriguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ian Happ — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.