Fever BaseballFuture Value Radar (FVR) · On the record
RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
Support the paperGet the Digest
Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-04

CWS @ LAA

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CWS
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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: Sam Antonacci — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Travis d'Arnaud — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Derek Hill — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Andrew Benintendi vs Brent Suter
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Chase Meidroth vs José Soriano
  3. 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Chase Meidroth vs José Soriano

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sam Antonacci — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Travis d'Arnaud — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Travis d'Arnaud — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Derek Hill — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.