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. He got 123 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
- 1-0.28▼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), not our error.