MIL @ CIN
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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
- 1-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Julian Garcia - 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
Sal Stewart vs Aaron Ashby - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jose Trevino — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jake Bauers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.