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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-10

TOR @ SD

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TOR
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    George Springer vs JP Sears
  2. 2-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Luis Campusano vs Louis Varland
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    George Springer vs Jhony Brito

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Xander Bogaerts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.