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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-31

CWS @ MIA

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

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Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 161 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: Austin Hays — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Agustín Ramírez — 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+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jakob Marsee vs Erick Fedde
  2. 2+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Otto Lopez vs Jedixson Paez
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Otto Lopez vs Jedixson Paez

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. 1Austin Hays — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Agustín Ramírez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.