STL @ TOR
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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
- 1-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ernie Clement vs Kyle Leahy - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-0 strike called ball
Andrés Giménez vs Justin Bruihl - 3+0.09▼5 · 0-0 strike called ball
Nathan Lukes vs Kyle Leahy
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.