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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-04

TOR @ CWS

Home plate: Junior Valentine

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CWS
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Tristan Peters vs Lazaro Estrada
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Mason Fluharty
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    George Springer vs Anthony Kay

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

  1. 1Tyler Heineman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Reese McGuire — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Reese McGuire — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.