HOU @ PHI
Home plate: Jeremie Rehak
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Jeremie Rehak called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 113 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jeremy Peña vs José Alvarado - 2-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cam Smith vs Zack Wheeler - 3-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez 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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.