NYM @ AZ
Home plate: Will Little
“Quietly excellent. The best umpiring is the kind you forget was there.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
- 1-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Marcus Semien vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 2+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Marcus Semien vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3+0.09▲4 · 0-0 strike called ball
Juan Soto vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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.
- 1James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Austin Slater — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.