PHI @ MIL
Home plate: Chad Fairchild
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryson Stott vs Jacob Misiorowski - 2+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Schwarber vs Jacob Misiorowski - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Tanner Banks
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.