BAL @ TOR
Home plate: Hunter Wendelstedt
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Hunter Wendelstedt called the 164 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. 145 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Alejandro Kirk vs Chris Bassitt - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nathan Lukes vs Chris Bassitt - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
George Springer vs Chris Bassitt
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.