PHI @ LAA
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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
- 1-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Bryson Stott vs Ryan Johnson - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
Trea Turner vs Ryan Johnson - 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Kyle Schwarber vs Ryan Johnson
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.
- 1Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Oswald Peraza — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Wade Meckler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.