COL @ LAA
Home plate: Bill Miller
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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
- 1-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Adam Frazier vs Blas Castaño - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Edouard Julien vs Grayson Rodriguez - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Wade Meckler vs Tomoyuki Sugano
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Sterlin Thompson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.