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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-25

CHC @ LAD

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CHC
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 190 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 177 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Tucker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Max Muncy vs Colin Rea
  2. 2+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Seiya Suzuki vs Roki Sasaki
  3. 3-0.20▼3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Teoscar Hernández vs Colin Rea

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.