NYM @ STL
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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
- 1-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Iván Herrera vs Kodai Senga - 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Masyn Winn vs Kodai Senga - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Luis Torrens vs Andre Pallante
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Nathan Church — 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.