CWS @ TEX
Home plate: Will Little
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 123 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Ezequiel Duran vs Noah Schultz - 2+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Elias Díaz vs Noah Schultz - 3-0.23▼5 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wyatt Langford vs Tyler Schweitzer
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.