SEA @ NYY
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Josh Naylor vs Will Warren - 2-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Julio Rodríguez vs Yerry De los Santos - 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
Taylor Ward vs Will Warren
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.
- 1Josh Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Brendan Donovan — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.