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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-27

KC @ ATL

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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

Challenge 1: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Carter Jensen vs Robert Suarez
  2. 2-0.10▲1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Maikel Garcia vs Chris Sale
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Chris Sale

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.