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Home plate: Bill Miller
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Ben Williamson vs Taj Bradley - 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Chandler Simpson vs Taj Bradley - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Trevor Larnach vs Drew Rasmussen
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.