TOR @ CWS
Home plate: Junior Valentine
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What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Tristan Peters vs Lazaro Estrada - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Luisangel Acuña vs Tommy Nance - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Munetaka Murakami vs Mason Fluharty
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Reese McGuire — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Reese McGuire — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.