MIL @ STL
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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▼9 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Lars Nootbaar vs Abner Uribe - 2+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Abner Uribe - 3+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
Brice Turang vs JoJo Romero
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bryan Torres — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.