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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-09

AZ @ NYM

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

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B
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Jorge Barrosa — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Robert Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ketel Marte — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Tyrone Taylor vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Jose Fernandez vs Nolan McLean
  3. 3-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jorge Barrosa vs Nolan McLean

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jorge Barrosa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Robert Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.