“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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
- 1-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Eugenio Suárez vs Luis Castillo - 2-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
Tyler Stephenson vs Hagen Smith - 3+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
Andrew Benintendi vs Rhett Lowder
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.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Dane Myers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Drew Romo — 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.