AZ @ STL
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Corbin Carroll vs Matthew Liberatore - 2+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Gabriel Moreno vs Matthew Liberatore - 3-0.23▼2 · 0-2 ball called strike
Pedro Pagés vs Mitch Bratt
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.
- 1Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.