KC @ COL
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 111 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 102 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▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Lane Thomas vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 2-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Carter Jensen vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
TJ Rumfield vs Michael Wacha
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.