AZ @ SD
Home plate: Will Little
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
Tommy Troy vs Yuki Matsui - 2+0.09▼4 · 0-0 strike called ball
Jake Cronenworth vs Merrill Kelly - 3-0.09▼8 · 0-0 ball called strike
Luis Campusano vs Kevin Ginkel
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.