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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-18

SD @ LAA

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.9% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Manny Machado vs Yusei Kikuchi
  2. 2-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Nolan Schanuel vs Germán Márquez
  3. 3+0.19▲9 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Jake Cronenworth vs Nick Sandlin

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

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

  1. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Nolan Schanuel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.