PHI @ DET
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Alec Bohm vs Beau Brieske - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryce Harper vs Jack Flaherty - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Derek Hill vs Jack Flaherty
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.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.