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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28

MIA @ LAD

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIA
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Connor Norby vs Blake Treinen
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Kyle Tucker vs Janson Junk
  3. 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Connor Norby vs Shohei Ohtani

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.