HOU @ NYY
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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▲3 · 3-2 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Will Warren - 2+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Will Warren - 3-0.30▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ben Rice vs Ethan Pecko
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 · 1 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 ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Isaac Paredes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.