PHI @ LAA
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 161 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+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Wade Meckler vs Zack Wheeler - 2+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Bryson Stott vs Yusei Kikuchi - 3-0.13▼1 · 1-1 ball called strike
Wade Meckler vs Zack Wheeler
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.
- 1Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Derek Hill — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Moisés Ballesteros — 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.