ATL @ MIA
Home plate: Clint Vondrak
“The zone had wings tonight.”
What this shows — how Clint Vondrak called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Dominic Smith vs Dax Fulton - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Griffin Conine vs Brent Suter - 3-0.28▲8 · 1-2 ball called strike
Ha-Seong Kim vs Bradley Blalock
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.
- 1Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Jakob Marsee — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6Michael Harris II — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.