PIT @ TOR
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike
Oneil Cruz vs Dylan Cease - 2-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Nick Gonzales vs Mason Fluharty - 3-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Brandon Valenzuela vs Mitch Keller
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.