PHI @ COL
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 102 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+0.69▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Alec Bohm vs Tomoyuki Sugano - 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Willi Castro vs Taijuan Walker - 3+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Hunter Goodman vs Taijuan Walker
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Rafael Marchán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.