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, 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
- 1-0.69▼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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.