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. He got 116 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+0.28▼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), not our error.