NYY @ BOS
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
José Caballero vs Justin Slaten - 2-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
Anthony Seigler vs Brent Headrick - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tsung-Che Cheng — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.