MIL @ PHI
Home plate: Dan Bellino
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike
David Hamilton vs Tanner Banks - 2-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike
Garrett Mitchell vs Aaron Nola - 3+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Alec Bohm vs DL Hall
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 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.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jake Bauers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.