“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Rob Drake called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 117 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Corey Seager vs Logan Gilbert - 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Dominic Canzone vs Robby Ahlstrom - 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Wyatt Langford vs Logan Gilbert
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.
- 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Lazaro Montes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.