LAD @ NYY
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Max Muncy vs Paul Blackburn - 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Tommy Edman vs Gerrit Cole - 3+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Trent Grisham vs Roki Sasaki
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.