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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 103 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.13▼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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.