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Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Curtis Mead vs Eric Orze - 2+0.19▲4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Josh Bell vs Cade Cavalli - 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Royce Lewis vs Orlando Ribalta
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.