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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-16

TEX @ ATH

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TEX
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 190 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 174 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: Brandon Nimmo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jeff McNeil — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Joc Pederson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Lawrence Butler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Austin Wynns vs Jack Leiter
  2. 2-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Jake Burger vs Scott Barlow
  3. 3+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Scott Barlow

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Brandon Nimmo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jeff McNeil — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Joc Pederson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Lawrence Butler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.