LAD @ AZ
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Max Kepler vs Edwin Díaz - 2+0.21▼8 · 3-0 strike called ball
Ildemaro Vargas vs Tanner Scott - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Ketel Marte vs Roki Sasaki
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Tommy Edman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.