ATL @ SEA
Home plate: Will Little
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Leo Rivas vs Bryce Elder - 2+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Michael Harris II vs Andrés Muñoz - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Randy Arozarena vs Bryce Elder
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.