PHI @ BAL
Home plate: Derek Thomas
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Derek Thomas called the 156 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▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Taylor Ward vs Andrew Painter - 2+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Bryson Stott vs Josh Walker - 3-0.23▼3 · 0-2 ball called strike
Gunnar Henderson vs Andrew Painter
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Yohel Pozo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.