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Home plate: Will Little
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What this shows — how Will Little called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▲1 · 3-2 ball called strike
Dustin Harris vs Tyler Glasnow - 2-0.39▲9 · 2-2 ball called strike
Samad Taylor vs Edwin Díaz - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dustin Harris vs Tyler Glasnow
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Samad Taylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.