NYY @ BAL
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Aaron Judge vs Trevor Rogers - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Coby Mayo vs Will Warren - 3+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colton Cowser vs Will Warren
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.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Max Schuemann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Aaron Judge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.