ATL @ LAA
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 112 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 104 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
- 1-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
Drake Baldwin vs José Soriano - 2+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
Bryce Teodosio vs Chris Sale - 3+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball
Dominic Smith vs José Soriano
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.
- 1Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.