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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

CWS @ AZ

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CWS
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 206 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 191 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: Alek Thomas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Alek Thomas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Reese McGuire — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Osvaldo Bido — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs Ryan Thompson
  2. 2-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ketel Marte vs Osvaldo Bido
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Corbin Carroll vs Sean Burke

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alek Thomas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Alek Thomas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Reese McGuire — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Osvaldo Bido — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.