PHI @ MIA
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball
Justin Crawford vs Janson Junk - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Justin Crawford vs Janson Junk - 3+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jakob Marsee vs Aaron Nola
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Justin Crawford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.