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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

AZ @ NYM

Home plate: Chris Segal

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, NYM
4
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Marcus Semien — 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+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Carson Benge vs Ryne Nelson
  2. 2-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Ketel Marte vs David Peterson
  3. 3-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Mark Vientos vs Ryne Nelson

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Marcus Semien — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.