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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-20

CIN @ TB

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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 strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Stephenson vs Trevor Martin
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Matt McLain vs Jesse Scholtens
  3. 3+0.09▼1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Nick Fortes vs Rhett Lowder

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. 1Jake Fraley — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.