BOS @ BAL
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“The zone had a case of the wanders.”
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 116 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jackson Holliday vs Garrett Whitlock - 2-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Brandon Young - 3-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
Gunnar Henderson vs Erik Miller
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Dylan Beavers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.