SD @ PHI
Home plate: Vic Carapazza
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Vic Carapazza called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Yuki Matsui - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Justin Crawford vs Adrian Morejon - 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball
Gavin Sheets vs Orion Kerkering
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Miguel Andujar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.