CLE @ PHI
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 107 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 100 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▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike
J.T. Realmuto vs Gavin Williams - 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
J.T. Realmuto vs Gavin Williams - 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Kyle Schwarber vs Gavin Williams
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.