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 209 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▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Hedges vs Kohl Drake - 2-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Austin Hedges vs Kohl Drake - 3+0.19▲6 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Corbin Carroll vs Colin Holderman
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 strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.