DET @ TEX
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Dillon Dingler vs Nathan Eovaldi - 2+0.30▲6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Ben Malgeri vs Tyler Alexander - 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Justin Foscue vs Framber Valdez
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 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.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.