SF @ MIL
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
Sal Frelick vs Trevor McDonald - 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
William Contreras vs Caleb Kilian - 3+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
Willy Adames vs Kyle Harrison
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.
- 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Rafael Devers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.