CWS @ CLE
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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
- 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Sam Antonacci vs Tanner Bibee - 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Sam Antonacci vs Tanner Bibee - 3+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Kyle Teel vs Franco Aleman
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.
- 2Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.