ATH @ CIN
Home plate: Will Little
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Rhett Lowder - 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Jacob Lopez - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jonah Heim vs Emilio Pagán
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Donovan Walton — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Jose Trevino — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Jose Trevino — 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.