“ABS had a long evening on this one.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Spencer Torkelson vs J.T. Ginn - 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dillon Dingler vs Jacob Lopez - 3+0.19▼6 · 2-0 strike called ball
Zach McKinstry vs Jacob Lopez
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jacob Wilson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Riley Greene — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.