LAA @ PIT
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 106 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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
- 1-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Oneil Cruz vs Walbert Ureña - 2-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
Christian Moore vs Paul Skenes - 3-0.09▲5 · 0-0 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Paul Skenes
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.