COL @ PIT
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jared Triolo vs Chase Dollander - 2+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Oneil Cruz vs Juan Mejia - 3+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Troy Johnston vs Evan Sisk
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.