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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-28

WSH @ NYM

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, WSH
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brady House — 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+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jacob Young vs Clay Holmes
  2. 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    James Wood vs Clay Holmes
  3. 3+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Brady House vs Craig Kimbrel

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Brady House — 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.