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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

PHI @ CHC

Home plate: John Bacon

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.3% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CHC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how John Bacon called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Dansby Swanson vs Alan Rangel
  2. 2-0.28▲9 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Rafael Marchán vs Hoby Milner
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Moisés Ballesteros vs Alan Rangel

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. 1Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.