PIT @ WSH
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 179 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Nick Gonzales vs Cade Cavalli - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Dylan Crews vs Mason Montgomery - 3-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Esmerlyn Valdez 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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Bubba Chandler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Konnor Griffin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.