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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

MIL @ CIN

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Trevino — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jake Bauers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Elly De La Cruz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    William Contreras vs Julian Garcia
  2. 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Sal Stewart vs Aaron Ashby
  3. 3-0.19▲3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Blake Perkins vs Nick Lodolo

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Jake Bauers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.