PIT @ PHI
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball
Bryce Harper vs Paul Skenes - 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Gabriel Rincones Jr. vs Paul Skenes - 3+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Brandon Marsh vs Yohan Ramírez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Justin Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Gabriel Rincones Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.