“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isiah Kiner-Falefa vs Garrett Cleavinger - 2+0.19▲7 · 2-0 strike called ball
Mickey Gasper vs Drew Rasmussen - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Nick Fortes vs Justin Slaten
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.
- 1Cedric Mullins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Isiah Kiner-Falefa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Isiah Kiner-Falefa — 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.