BOS @ PIT
Home plate: Ryan Wills
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Ryan Wills called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Jared Triolo vs Jake Bennett - 2-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike
Brandon Lowe vs Alec Gamboa - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Brandon Lowe vs Alec Gamboa
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.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Willson Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.