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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

SD @ COL

Home plate: Alan Porter

“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — 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. 1-0.13▲7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Jaden Hill
  2. 2+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Luis Campusano vs Tomoyuki Sugano
  3. 3+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Ramón Laureano vs Jaden Hill

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. 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — 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.