ATH @ AZ
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 195 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 186 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
- 1-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
Lawrence Butler vs Juan Morillo - 2-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jonah Heim vs Kohl Drake - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged
Nolan Arenado vs Brady Basso
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nolan Arenado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.