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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-11

ATH @ NYM

Home plate: James Hoye

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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: Max Muncy — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Bo Bichette vs Jacob Lopez
  2. 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Shea Langeliers vs Luke Weaver
  3. 3+0.19▲2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Carlos Cortes vs Kodai Senga

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. 1Max Muncy — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.