CWS @ CLE
Home plate: Gabe Morales
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Colson Montgomery vs Gavin Williams - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Miguel Vargas vs Gavin Williams - 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Kyle Teel vs Gavin Williams
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.