ATH @ TEX
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 173 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Henry Bolte vs MacKenzie Gore - 2-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Zack Gelof vs Adam Macko - 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Michael Stefanic vs MacKenzie Gore
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Ezequiel Duran — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.