WSH @ SD
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 142 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. 136 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
- 1-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Luis Campusano vs Jake Irvin - 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Jake Irvin - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Keibert Ruiz vs Nick Pivetta
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.
- 1Daylen Lile — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Keibert Ruiz — 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.