BOS @ ATL
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Mickey Gasper vs Reynaldo López - 2+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jorge Mateo vs Brayan Bello - 3-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Austin Riley vs Brayan Bello
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Riley — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Mickey Gasper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.