HOU @ TB
Home plate: Bruce Dreckman
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Bruce Dreckman called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Jeremy Peña vs Freddy Peralta - 2+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Nelson Velázquez vs Brody Hopkins - 3+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Hayden Wesneski
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Daulton Varsho — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Taylor Trammell — 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.