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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-24

DET @ CIN

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, DET
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 220 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 204 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: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ke'Bryan Hayes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Dane Myers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Gleyber Torres vs Kyle Nicolas
  2. 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Gleyber Torres vs Brock Burke
  3. 3+0.21▼7 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Dane Myers vs Will Vest

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ke'Bryan Hayes — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Dane Myers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.