WSH @ MIL
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
James Wood vs Kyle Harrison - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Keibert Ruiz vs Brandon Sproat - 3+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Sal Frelick vs Clayton Beeter
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Joey Ortiz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.