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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-09

CWS @ KC

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Munetaka Murakami — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Seranthony Domínguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Jonathan India vs Anthony Kay
  2. 2+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Seth Lugo
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Edgar Quero vs Seth Lugo

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Munetaka Murakami — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Seranthony Domínguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.