AZ @ KC
Home plate: Will Little
“Corner-to-corner and then some.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 146 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ildemaro Vargas vs Daniel Lynch IV - 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Zac Gallen - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Zac Gallen
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.