SEA @ TOR
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Brett Bateman vs Kade Anderson - 2-0.30▲8 · 3-1 ball called strike
Julio Rodríguez vs Tyler Rogers - 3+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Brett Bateman vs Kade Anderson
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 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 strike: overturned.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Dominic Canzone — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.