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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04

LAD @ WSH

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, WSH
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Call — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Will Smith — 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+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    CJ Abrams vs Tyler Glasnow
  2. 2-0.13▲3 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Alex Freeland vs Jake Irvin
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    James Wood vs Tyler Glasnow

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Call — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Will Smith — 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.