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Home plate: Willie Traynor
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Willie Traynor called the 134 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. 128 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Francisco Lindor vs Cam Schlittler - 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Austin Wells vs Christian Scott - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Christian Scott
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.