DET @ MIN
Home plate: Quinn Wolcott
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Kevin McGonigle vs Taj Bradley - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Byron Buxton vs Tarik Skubal - 3+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach McKinstry vs Taj Bradley
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.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Matt Wallner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.