HOU @ SEA
Home plate: Marvin Hudson
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged
Taylor Trammell vs Carlos Vargas - 2-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Seranthony Domínguez - 3+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Carlos Vargas
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Josh Hader — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.