“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Pete Alonso vs Brayan Bello - 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Jackson Holliday vs Brayan Bello - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jarren Duran vs Kyle Bradish
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.