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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28

NYY @ TEX

Home plate: Chris Conroy

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

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Josh Jung — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Cody Bellinger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Corey Seager — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wells — 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+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Jacob deGrom
  2. 2-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Joc Pederson vs Cam Schlittler
  3. 3+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Trent Grisham vs Jacob deGrom

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. 1Josh Jung — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Corey Seager — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.