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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

AZ @ CHC

Home plate: Gabe Morales

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

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Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CHC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 131 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: James McCann — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Ketel Marte — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.19▼5 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Moisés Ballesteros vs Ryne Nelson
  2. 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Michael Busch vs Taylor Clarke
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Jorge Barrosa vs Ben Brown

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

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

  1. 1Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Pete Crow-Armstrong — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3James McCann — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Ketel Marte — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.