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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-19

CWS @ ATH

Home plate: Bill Miller

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, ATH
6
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Miguel Vargas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Darell Hernaiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Zack Gelof — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Max Muncy vs Noah Schultz
  2. 2-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Darell Hernaiz vs Grant Taylor
  3. 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Denzel Clarke vs Noah Schultz

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Miguel Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Darell Hernaiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 9 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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