Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-25
NYY @ SF
Home plate: Bill Miller
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
Umpire Grade
88.6% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYY
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
Patrick Bailey vs Max Fried - 2-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Luis Arraez vs Max Fried - 3-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ben Rice vs JT Brubaker
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.