LAA @ WSH
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 152 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▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jorbit Vivas vs José Fermin - 2-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Christian Moore vs Cade Cavalli - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Harry Ford vs Yusei Kikuchi
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brady House — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.