CHC @ PHI
Home plate: Nate Tomlinson
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
What this shows — how Nate Tomlinson called the 182 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Brandon Marsh vs Javier Assad - 2-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Nico Hoerner vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Bryce Harper vs Charlie Barnes
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.