TB @ DET
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Hao-Yu Lee vs Ian Seymour - 2+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Liam Hicks vs Drew Sommers - 3+0.21▲3 · 3-0 strike called ball
Yandy Díaz vs Jackson Jobe
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Richie Palacios — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.