STL @ AZ
Home plate: Bill Miller
“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Lars Nootbaar vs Merrill Kelly - 2-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Geraldo Perdomo vs Michael McGreevy - 3-0.39▼9 · 2-2 ball called strike
Ketel Marte vs Riley O'Brien
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Masyn Winn — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Geraldo Perdomo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.