SF @ TB
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“The grade leaned — the ledger says which way.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Cedric Mullins vs Landen Roupp - 2+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
Richie Palacios vs Gregory Santos - 3+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cedric Mullins vs Landen Roupp
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Gilbert — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.