NYY @ SD
Home plate: Alex MacKay
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 167 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ty France vs Michael Fulmer - 2+0.21▲3 · 3-0 strike called ball
José Caballero vs Griffin Canning - 3-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Luis Campusano vs Carlos Rodón
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.