TEX @ HOU
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ezequiel Duran vs Hunter Brown - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jeremy Peña vs Luis Curvelo - 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Hunter Brown
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ezequiel Duran — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.