SEA @ SD
Home plate: Bill Miller
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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
- 1-0.69▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Leo Rivas vs Randy Vásquez - 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jackson Merrill vs Emerson Hancock - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cal Raleigh vs Randy Vásquez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Leo Rivas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.