PHI @ MIN
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 177 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
J.T. Realmuto vs Dean Kremer - 2+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs Andrew Painter - 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Luke Keaschall vs Tim Mayza
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.