TOR @ WSH
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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
- 1-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
James Wood vs Tyler Rogers - 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
CJ Abrams vs Max Scherzer - 3-0.10▲4 · 0-1 ball called strike
Alejandro Kirk vs Andrew Alvarez
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.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis García Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.