AZ @ SD
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Corbin Carroll vs Walker Buehler - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Ildemaro Vargas vs Walker Buehler - 3+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ty France vs Ryan Thompson
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.