“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 177 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jordan Walker vs Tarik Skubal - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs George Soriano - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Mookie Betts vs Quinn Mathews
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.