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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-17

TB @ PIT

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, PIT
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Jake Fraley — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Bryan Reynolds — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Junior Caminero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Bryan Reynolds vs Nick Martinez
  2. 2+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Konnor Griffin vs Yoendrys Gómez
  3. 3+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Bubba Chandler

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

  1. 1Jake Fraley — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.