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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-22

WSH @ COL

Home plate: Clint Vondrak

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, COL
7
ABS Overturns
of 11 reviewed

What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kyle Karros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Karros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Cole Carrigg — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).10Challenge 11: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).11
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼4 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Kyle Karros vs Cade Cavalli
  2. 2-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    James Wood vs Gabriel Hughes
  3. 3-0.30▼8 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Hunter Goodman vs Eddy Yean

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

11 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Brett Sullivan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Karros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  10. 10Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  11. 11Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 11 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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