CHC @ PIT
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Seiya Suzuki vs Tyler Callihan - 2-0.23▲3 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Paul Skenes - 3-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike
Jared Triolo vs Javier Assad
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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Dansby Swanson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.