ATL @ MIN
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 150 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+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Ryan Jeffers vs Martín Pérez - 2-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Bailey Ober - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs Martín Pérez
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.