TEX @ SEA
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 122 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
- 1-0.69▼2 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Cody Bradford - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
Wyatt Langford vs Kade Anderson - 3-0.21▼7 · 3-0 ball called strike
Cole Young vs Trevor Williams
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.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.