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Home plate: Willie Traynor
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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
- 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Brayan Rocchio vs Bailey Ober - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Will Dion - 3-0.23▲5 · 0-2 ball called strike
Royce Lewis vs Slade Cecconi
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.