ATH @ TEX
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”
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
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Zack Gelof vs Cal Quantrill - 2-0.30▲5 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Nick Kurtz vs Nathan Eovaldi - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Brandon Nimmo vs Luis Severino
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Jacob Wilson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.