ATL @ BOS
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isiah Kiner-Falefa vs Chris Sale - 2-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Andruw Monasterio vs Chris Sale - 3+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Carlos Narváez vs Chris Sale
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.
- 1Isiah Kiner-Falefa — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Isiah Kiner-Falefa — 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.