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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-03

CLE @ ATH

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.7% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Daniel Schneemann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wynns — 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+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jeff McNeil vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Bo Naylor vs Joel Kuhnel
  3. 3-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Travis Bazzana vs Aaron Civale

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. 1Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Daniel Schneemann — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wynns — 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.