Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28
SEA @ MIN
Home plate: Doug Eddings
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, SEA
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Victor Caratini vs Matt Brash - 2-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Randy Arozarena vs Joe Ryan - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Logan Gilbert
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.
- 1Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.