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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29

KC @ ATL

Home plate: Gabe Morales

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 128 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Dominic Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Matt Olson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Jac Caglianone vs Grant Holmes
  2. 2-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Maikel Garcia vs Didier Fuentes
  3. 3+0.19▲5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Grant Holmes

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dominic Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.