NYM @ WSH
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Drew Millas vs Nolan McLean - 2+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Brett Baty vs Foster Griffin - 3+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Nolan McLean
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.