AZ @ CLE
Home plate: Will Little
“The robots earned their keep tonight.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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
- 1-0.69▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ketel Marte vs Tanner Bibee - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
José Ramírez vs Mitch Bratt - 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
Ketel Marte vs Tanner Bibee
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tanner Bibee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Corbin Carroll — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.