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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-21

STL @ MIA

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, STL
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Liam Hicks — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Agustín Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Connor Norby — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Iván Herrera vs Tyler Phillips
  2. 2-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Victor Scott II vs Tyler Phillips
  3. 3+0.10▼5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Connor Norby vs Dustin May

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

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

  1. 1Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Agustín Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Connor Norby — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.