NYM @ LAD
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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
Will Smith vs Nolan McLean - 2+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Marcus Semien vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 3+0.10▼7 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Freddie Freeman vs Nolan McLean
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.
- 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Robert Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.