“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kevin McGonigle vs Brandon Eisert - 2-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Braden Montgomery vs Will Vest - 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Edgar Quero vs Tarik Skubal
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.
- 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Randal Grichuk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Edgar Quero — 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.