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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

CHC @ LAD

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CHC
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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: Nico Hoerner — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Nico Hoerner vs Justin Wrobleski
  2. 2+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Nico Hoerner vs Edgardo Henriquez
  3. 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Dansby Swanson vs Justin Wrobleski

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nico Hoerner — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.