PIT @ WSH
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Tyler Callihan vs Zack Littell - 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Brandon Lowe vs Carson Palmquist - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Braxton Ashcraft
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Esmerlyn Valdez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tyler Callihan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.