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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-03

AZ @ CHC

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, AZ
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Ian Happ — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jorge Barrosa — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Corbin Carroll vs Matthew Boyd
  2. 2-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jose Fernandez vs Matthew Boyd
  3. 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Brandon Pfaadt

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. 1Ian Happ — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Seiya Suzuki — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jorge Barrosa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.