TB @ PIT
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 109 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+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Konnor Griffin vs Shane McClanahan - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Richie Palacios vs Mitch Keller - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Shane McClanahan
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.