MIA @ STL
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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▼1 · 2-2 ball called strike
Alec Burleson vs Max Meyer - 2-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Xavier Edwards vs Michael McGreevy - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kyle Stowers vs Michael McGreevy
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.
- 1Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Kyle Stowers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.