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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-14

SEA @ SD

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, SEA
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 123 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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: Cole Young — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cal Raleigh — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Cal Raleigh vs Jason Adam
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Manny Machado vs Bryan Woo
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Cal Raleigh vs Michael King

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.