DET @ CWS
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 150 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▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Colt Keith vs Grant Taylor - 2-0.30▼2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jake Rogers vs Framber Valdez - 3-0.23▼1 · 0-2 ball called strike
Brenton Doyle vs Framber Valdez
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jake Rogers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jake Rogers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.