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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-02

MIL @ WSH

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.9% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, WSH
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Garrett Mitchell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jacob Young — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: CJ Abrams — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    CJ Abrams vs Kyle Harrison
  2. 2+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    James Wood vs Kyle Harrison
  3. 3-0.21▼2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    CJ Abrams vs Kyle Harrison

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

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Garrett Mitchell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jacob Young — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4CJ Abrams — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.