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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

HOU @ BOS

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“The zone kept its promises.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, BOS
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Masataka Yoshida — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ceddanne Rafaela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Jarren Duran vs Spencer Arrighetti
  2. 2+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Ryan Watson
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Dustin Harris vs Connelly Early

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

  1. 1Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Masataka Yoshida — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.