STL @ PHI
Home plate: Chris Segal
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Kyle Schwarber vs Quinn Mathews - 2-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
José Fermín vs Andrew Painter - 3+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jordan Walker 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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.