LAA @ CWS
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
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What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Bryce Teodosio vs Anthony Kay - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jorge Soler vs Anthony Kay - 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Sam Antonacci vs Jack Kochanowicz
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.