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. He got 113 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▲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), not our error.