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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-29

LAA @ HOU

Home plate: Brennan Miller

“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, HOU
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 213 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 204 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: Mike Trout — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Mike Trout — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Mike Trout — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Isaac Paredes vs Drew Pomeranz
  2. 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Jack Kochanowicz
  3. 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Carlos Correa vs Jack Kochanowicz

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

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

  1. 1Mike Trout — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Mike Trout — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Mike Trout — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.