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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

CWS @ SD

Home plate: James Hoye

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CWS
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Germán Márquez
  2. 2+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Munetaka Murakami vs Germán Márquez
  3. 3+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Tristan Peters vs Germán Márquez

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. 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.