SEA @ CLE
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Rob Refsnyder vs Joey Cantillo - 2+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Travis Bazzana vs Gabe Speier - 3-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Cal Raleigh vs Joey Cantillo
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.