PHI @ ATL
Home plate: Dan Merzel
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Drake Baldwin vs Jesús Luzardo - 2+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Ozzie Albies vs Jesús Luzardo - 3-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ozzie Albies vs Jesús Luzardo
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Michael Harris II — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.