PHI @ MIA
Home plate: Dexter Kelley
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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
- 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Javier Sanoja vs José Alvarado - 2-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Graham Pauley vs Aaron Nola - 3+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Garrett Stubbs vs Sandy Alcantara
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Garrett Stubbs — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Heriberto Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Garrett Stubbs — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.