ATH @ CLE
Home plate: Junior Valentine
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brayan Rocchio vs Seth Johnson - 2-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Lawrence Butler vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
Nathaniel Lowe vs Mason Barnett
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.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.