NYM @ CIN
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Sal Stewart vs Jonathan Pintaro - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Eric Wagaman vs Caleb Ferguson - 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
Francisco Alvarez vs Chase Burns
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4A.J. Ewing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.