KC @ LAA
Home plate: Quinn Wolcott
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What this shows — how Quinn Wolcott called the 112 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Randy Dobnak - 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Reid Detmers - 3-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Michael Massey vs Reid Detmers
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.
- 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Denzer Guzman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Nick Loftin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.