MIA @ LAD
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jakob Marsee vs Shohei Ohtani - 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Connor Norby vs Blake Treinen - 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Kyle Tucker vs Janson Junk
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.
- 1Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Andy Pages — 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.