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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-15

WSH @ PIT

Home plate: James Hoye

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

C+
Umpire Grade
90.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, PIT
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 113 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Henry Davis — 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+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Bryan Reynolds vs Jake Irvin
  2. 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Bryan Reynolds vs Jake Irvin
  3. 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    James Wood vs Carmen Mlodzinski

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

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Henry Davis — 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.