LAD @ PHI
Home plate: Erich Bacchus
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 108 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 105 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
- 1-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Brandon Marsh vs Justin Wrobleski - 2+0.10▼6 · 0-1 strike called ball
Edmundo Sosa vs Justin Wrobleski - 3-0.09▲5 · 0-0 ball called strike
Tommy Edman vs Zack Wheeler
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Trea Turner — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Kyle Tucker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.