TOR @ SD
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 155 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
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
George Springer vs JP Sears - 2-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
George Springer vs Jhony Brito - 3+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jase Bowen vs Shane Bieber
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.