“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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· challenged ✓
Yordan Alvarez vs Bryan Woo - 2-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
J.P. Crawford vs Jayden Murray - 3+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
Luke Raley vs AJ Blubaugh
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.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.