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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

LAD @ WSH

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”

B-
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, LAD
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 187 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 172 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: Daylen Lile — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Shohei Ohtani — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Luis García Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Jacob Young vs Emmet Sheehan
  2. 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jorbit Vivas vs Emmet Sheehan
  3. 3+0.13▲5 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Alex Freeland vs Gus Varland

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. 1Daylen Lile — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Luis García Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.