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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-23

ATL @ WSH

Home plate: Chris Segal

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, WSH
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: James Wood — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Drake Baldwin — 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+0.13▼5 · 1-0 strike called ball
    James Wood vs JR Ritchie
  2. 2-0.09▲5 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Cade Cavalli
  3. 3-0.09▲7 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Cionel Pérez

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.