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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-03

SD @ BOS

Home plate: Chris Segal

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.6% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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: Willson Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Manny Machado — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Xander Bogaerts vs Sonny Gray
  2. 2-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Manny Machado vs Sonny Gray
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Luis Campusano vs Sonny Gray

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

  1. 1Willson Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Manny Machado — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.