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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

LAD @ SF

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“A few he'd want back, and the grade says so.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, SF
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 175 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Shohei Ohtani — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Max Muncy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Patrick Bailey — 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▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Freddie Freeman vs Landen Roupp
  2. 2-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Alex Freeland vs Landen Roupp
  3. 3+0.69▼5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Patrick Bailey vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Max Muncy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Patrick Bailey — 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.