TOR @ ATL
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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 strike called ball
Austin Riley vs Yariel Rodríguez - 2-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Michael Harris II vs Adam Macko - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Austin Riley vs Patrick Corbin
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.