STL @ CHC
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“The robots earned their keep tonight.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 167 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
- 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike
Seiya Suzuki vs Andre Pallante - 2-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
José Fermín vs David Peterson - 3-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Masyn Winn vs Bryse Wilson
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 · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4JJ Wetherholt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Masyn Winn — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 6José Fermín — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.