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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. He got 128 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▲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), not our error.