CHC @ PHI
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Kyle Backhus - 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
Seiya Suzuki vs Dylan Moore - 3-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Ian Happ 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.
- 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.