MIL @ SD
Home plate: Alfonso Márquez
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What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ethan Salas vs Antonio Senzatela - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Sal Frelick vs Yuki Matsui - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Joey Ortiz vs Bradgley Rodriguez
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Joey Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Ethan Salas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.