DET @ HOU
Home plate: Quinn Wolcott
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jake Rogers vs Peter Lambert - 2+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Colt Keith vs Peter Lambert - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Christian Vázquez vs Kyle Finnegan
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Christian Vázquez — 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.