LAA @ NYY
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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
- 1-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Oswald Peraza vs Yerry De los Santos - 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs Paul Blackburn - 3-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Aaron Judge vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.