NYY @ KC
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
Trent Grisham vs Michael Wacha - 2-0.30▼2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Salvador Perez vs Will Warren - 3+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Michael Wacha
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.