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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-27

NYY @ BOS

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 104 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: Tsung-Che Cheng — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    José Caballero vs Justin Slaten
  2. 2-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Anthony Seigler vs Brent Headrick
  3. 3+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Jake Bennett

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

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

  1. 1Tsung-Che Cheng — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.