CIN @ TEX
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Sal Stewart vs Jakob Junis - 2+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs MacKenzie Gore - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-0 strike called ball
Josh Jung vs Sam Moll
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.