SD @ KC
Home plate: Willie Traynor
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Matt Waldron - 2+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
Manny Machado vs Randy Dobnak - 3+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Randy Dobnak
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.