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Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Tommy Pham vs Connor Prielipp - 2-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Mark Vientos vs Kendry Rojas - 3-0.23▲8 · 0-2 ball called strike
Byron Buxton vs Brooks Raley
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.
- 1Juan Soto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.