CWS @ KC
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 164 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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
- 1-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
Colson Montgomery vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Maikel Garcia vs Erick Fedde - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball
John Rave vs Jordan Hicks
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Colson Montgomery — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4John Rave — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.