MIL @ WSH
Home plate: Junior Valentine
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What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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
- 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Curtis Mead vs Jacob Misiorowski - 2+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
James Wood vs Aaron Ashby - 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Luis García Jr. vs Jacob Misiorowski
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.
- 1Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.