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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-08

SEA @ TEX

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
1.5
Run Favor
runs, SEA
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Rob Refsnyder vs MacKenzie Gore
  2. 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Julio Rodríguez vs MacKenzie Gore
  3. 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Cal Raleigh vs MacKenzie Gore

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

  1. 1Mitch Garver — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Danny Jansen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.