COL @ CIN
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
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What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
TJ Rumfield vs Tony Santillan - 2-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Tyler Freeman vs Andrew Abbott - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-0 ball called strike
Matt McLain vs Michael Lorenzen
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Troy Johnston — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.