CLE @ TOR
Home plate: Quinn Wolcott
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
George Valera vs Kevin Gausman - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Andrés Giménez vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Chase DeLauter vs Kevin Gausman
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1George Valera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Chase DeLauter — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Joey Cantillo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.