PHI @ KC
Home plate: Roberto Ortiz
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Roberto Ortiz called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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
- 1-0.28▼2 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isaac Collins vs Aaron Nola - 2-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Isaac Collins vs Aaron Nola - 3+0.21▲4 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryce Harper vs Luinder Avila
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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.
- 2Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.