SF @ SD
Home plate: Will Little
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Casey Schmitt vs Germán Márquez - 2-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Rafael Devers vs Germán Márquez - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Casey Schmitt vs Germán Márquez
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.