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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-07

CIN @ MIA

Home plate: James Hoye

“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”

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Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Spencer Steer — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Heriberto Hernández vs Andrew Abbott
  2. 2+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Javier Sanoja vs Emilio Pagán
  3. 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Matt McLain vs Sandy Alcantara

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Spencer Steer — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.