NYM @ AZ
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
Gabriel Moreno vs Nolan McLean - 2-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Jose Fernandez vs Nolan McLean - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jorge Barrosa vs Nolan McLean
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jorge Barrosa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.