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Home plate: Nick Mahrley
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Nick Mahrley called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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
- 1-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
Kody Clemens vs Anthony Kay - 2-0.09▲3 · 0-0 ball called strike
Gabriel Gonzalez vs Anthony Kay - 3+0.09▲3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Ryan Kreidler vs Anthony Kay
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan Kreidler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.