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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

CIN @ MIA

Home plate: D.J. Reyburn

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, MIA
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how D.J. Reyburn called the 163 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: Connor Norby — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nathaniel Lowe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Xavier Edwards vs Brady Singer
  2. 2-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Matt McLain vs Michael Petersen
  3. 3-0.10▲8 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Eugenio Suárez vs Lake Bachar

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

  1. 1Connor Norby — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Nathaniel Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.