TB @ BAL
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jeremiah Jackson vs Griffin Jax - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Cedric Mullins vs Shane Baz - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Griffin Jax
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Shane Baz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.