LAA @ MIA
Home plate: Will Little
“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Moisés Ballesteros vs Tyler Zuber - 2-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Xavier Edwards vs Grayson Rodriguez - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Mike Trout vs Ryan Gusto
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Wade Meckler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.