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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-19

NYM @ WSH

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”

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Umpire Grade
88.9% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, WSH
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 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 120 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: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Drew Millas vs Nolan McLean
  2. 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Luis García Jr. vs Nolan McLean
  3. 3-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Luis Torrens vs Foster Griffin

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.