STL @ CIN
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 189 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Tyler Stephenson vs Michael McGreevy - 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ke'Bryan Hayes vs Peter Strzelecki - 3+0.19▼9 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged
Elly De La Cruz vs George Soriano
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3JJ Bleday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.