MIL @ LAA
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“You wanted a strike, you had to earn it twice.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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
Garrett Mitchell vs Brent Suter - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Vaughn Grissom vs Chad Patrick - 3-0.39▼6 · 2-2 ball called strike
Jo Adell vs Chad Patrick
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Christian Yelich — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.