HOU @ TEX
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jeremy Peña vs Peyton Gray - 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Dezenzo vs Peyton Gray - 3-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Joc Pederson vs Tatsuya Imai
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Brandon Nimmo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.