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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-30

NYY @ SEA

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
1.2
Run Favor
runs, NYY
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ben Rice — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Giancarlo Stanton — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Victor Robles vs Ryan Weathers
  2. 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Giancarlo Stanton vs Luis Castillo
  3. 3-0.21▼6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Mitch Garver vs Jake Bird

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

  1. 1José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ben Rice — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Giancarlo Stanton — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.