WSH @ LAD
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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+0.69▲4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dylan Crews vs Blake Snell - 2-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike
James Wood vs Blake Snell - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Kyle Tucker vs Jackson Kent
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.