DET @ LAA
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Wade Meckler vs Jacob Waguespack - 2+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Tarik Skubal - 3-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Dillon Dingler vs Grayson Rodriguez
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 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.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.