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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

MIL @ WSH

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Curtis Mead vs Jacob Misiorowski
  2. 2+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Luis García Jr. vs Jacob Misiorowski
  3. 3-0.21▲1 · 3-0 ball called strike
    William Contreras vs Jake Irvin

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.