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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-29

TOR @ BAL

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

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Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Daulton Varsho vs Keegan Akin
  2. 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Gunnar Henderson vs Austin Voth
  3. 3-0.10▼2 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Leody Taveras vs Adam Macko

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.