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Home plate: Bill Miller
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 151 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+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Gavin Sheets vs Bailey Ober - 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Gavin Sheets vs Bailey Ober - 3+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Xander Bogaerts vs Bailey Ober
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.