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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-26

PIT @ MIL

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, MIL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Brandon Lockridge — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — 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▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Brandon Lockridge vs Carmen Mlodzinski
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Marcell Ozuna vs Kyle Harrison
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nick Gonzales vs Trevor Megill

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. 1Brandon Lockridge — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — 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.