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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

MIA @ NYY

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“The zone kept its promises.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 200 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 185 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 Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Austin Wells vs Pete Fairbanks
  2. 2+0.21▼5 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Chris Paddack
  3. 3-0.21▼9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Cody Bellinger vs Anthony Bender

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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