WSH @ BOS
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 185 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Willson Contreras vs Andrew Alvarez - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nate Eaton vs Riley Cornelio - 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Caleb Durbin vs Brad Lord
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.