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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-29

AZ @ MIL

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 191 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 179 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Greg Jones — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Adrian Del Castillo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Adrian Del Castillo — 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+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Alek Thomas vs Brandon Sproat
  2. 2+0.30▼1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  3. 3-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Jake Bauers vs Eduardo Rodriguez

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. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Greg Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Adrian Del Castillo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Adrian Del Castillo — 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.