TB @ MIA
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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
- 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Cedric Mullins vs Anthony Bender - 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Esteury Ruiz vs Steven Matz - 3-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Xavier Edwards vs Garrett Cleavinger
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.
- 1Victor Mesa Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.