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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-05

TOR @ CWS

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, TOR
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ernie Clement — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Derek Hill vs Austin Voth
  2. 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Luisangel Acuña vs Austin Voth
  3. 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Addison Barger vs Davis Martin

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.