BAL @ CWS
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 197 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dylan Beavers vs Tyler Schweitzer - 2-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Tristan Peters vs Kyle Bradish - 3-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
Miguel Vargas vs Kyle Bradish
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Coby Mayo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Reese McGuire — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Reese McGuire — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.