PIT @ PHI
Home plate: Andy Fletcher
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Andy Fletcher called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Gonzales vs Tim Mayza - 2+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Derek Hill vs Yohan Ramírez - 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Braxton Ashcraft
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Justin Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.