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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30

COL @ TOR

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
1.5
Run Favor
runs, TOR
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jesús Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Andrés Giménez — 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. 1-0.69▲4 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Edouard Julien vs Spencer Miles
  2. 2-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Brett Sullivan vs Tyler Heineman
  3. 3+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Brendon Little

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jesús Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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