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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24

ATH @ TEX

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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

Challenge 1: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jacob Wilson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Zack Gelof vs Cal Quantrill
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs Luis Severino
  3. 3+0.10▲8 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Jacob Wilson vs Cal Quantrill

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Kurtz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jacob Wilson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.