MIL @ KC
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 189 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▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
William Contreras vs Daniel Lynch IV - 2-0.23▼5 · 0-2 ball called strike
Maikel Garcia vs Chad Patrick - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brandon Lockridge vs John Schreiber
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Lane Thomas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.