CWS @ MIL
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brice Turang vs Shane Smith - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
William Contreras vs Shane Smith - 3-0.10▲3 · 0-1 ball called strike
Miguel Vargas vs Jacob Misiorowski
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.