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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

ATL @ COL

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, COL
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Drake Baldwin — 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+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brett Sullivan vs Chris Sale
  2. 2+0.21▼5 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Tovar vs Chris Sale
  3. 3-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Drake Baldwin vs Chase Dollander

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.