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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

MIN @ TB

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“No notes. Well, one: nicely done.”

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Umpire Grade
96.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Royce Lewis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼5 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Yandy Díaz vs Simeon Woods Richardson
  2. 2-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Jake Fraley vs Anthony Banda
  3. 3+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ryan Jeffers vs Jesse Scholtens

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Royce Lewis — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.