SD @ AZ
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
Jorge Barrosa vs Bradgley Rodriguez - 2+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Manny Machado vs Eduardo Rodriguez - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Jackson Merrill vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Freddy Fermin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jase Bowen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.