“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Logan Henderson - 2+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
Sal Frelick vs Zack Littell - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Gary Sánchez vs Gus Varland
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.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Gary Sánchez — 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.