WSH @ COL
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 135 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+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
TJ Rumfield vs Carson Palmquist - 2-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
Hunter Goodman vs Carson Palmquist - 3-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
Luis García Jr. vs Brennan Bernardino
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Cole Carrigg — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.