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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

TB @ MIN

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brooks Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Cedric Mullins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼9 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Luke Keaschall vs Bryan Baker
  2. 2+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Luke Keaschall vs Nick Martinez
  3. 3+0.09▲2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Richie Palacios vs Simeon Woods Richardson

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. 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Brooks Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Cedric Mullins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.