CWS @ MIN
Home plate: Malachi Moore
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Braden Montgomery vs Zebby Matthews - 2+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs José Urquidy - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Zebby Matthews
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Trevor Larnach — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4José Urquidy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — 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.