TB @ PHI
Home plate: Cory Blaser
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 121 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
- 1-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Alec Bohm vs Freddy Peralta - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryson Stott vs Freddy Peralta - 3+0.13▲9 · 1-0 strike called ball
Ben Williamson vs Tim Mayza
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.