HOU @ DET
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Kenley Jansen - 2-0.30▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Brice Matthews vs Tyler Holton - 3+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Joey Loperfido vs Troy Melton
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.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Riley Greene — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Kerry Carpenter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Colt Keith — 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.