AZ @ CLE
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 213 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 210 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
- 1-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Austin Hedges vs Kohl Drake - 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Travis Bazzana vs Kohl Drake - 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Steven Kwan vs Kohl Drake
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Travis Bazzana — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.