BOS @ HOU
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jose Altuve vs Garrett Crochet - 2-0.21▲5 · 3-0 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Mike Burrows - 3-0.20▲1 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Wilyer Abreu vs Mike Burrows
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Wilyer Abreu — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.