ATL @ MIN
Home plate: Mark Wegner
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Mark Wegner called the 100 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 95 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
- 1-0.10▼1 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Josh Bell vs Tyler Mahle - 2+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Royce Lewis vs Tyler Mahle - 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
Mike Yastrzemski vs Zebby Matthews
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Josh Bell — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — 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.