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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-03

TEX @ DET

Home plate: Brennan Miller

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

A
Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, TEX
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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: Colt Keith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Josh Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Andrew McCutchen vs Tyler Holton
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Andrew McCutchen vs Tyler Holton
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Duran vs Brenan Hanifee

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Colt Keith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Josh Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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