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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-13

AZ @ BAL

Home plate: Brennan Miller

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B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, AZ
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Adrian Del Castillo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Adrian Del Castillo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Jorge Barrosa — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼8 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged
    Blaze Alexander vs Andrew Hoffmann
  2. 2+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Nolan Arenado vs Rico Garcia
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Pete Alonso vs Ryne Nelson

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

  1. 1Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Adrian Del Castillo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Adrian Del Castillo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Jorge Barrosa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.