PIT @ PHI
Home plate: Jansen Visconti
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Jansen Visconti called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Endy Rodríguez vs Alan Rangel - 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Rafael Marchán vs Carmen Mlodzinski - 3+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Marcell Ozuna vs Alan Rangel
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.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Gabriel Rincones Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.