TOR @ BAL
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Adley Rutschman vs Connor Seabold - 2-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Daulton Varsho vs Keegan Akin - 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
Gunnar Henderson vs Austin Voth
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.