SEA @ BOS
Home plate: Will Little
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What this shows — how Will Little called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Lazaro Montes vs Jedixson Paez - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Alec Gamboa - 3+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Nick Sogard vs Bryan Woo
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.
- 1Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.