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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

ATH @ PHI

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, PHI
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▼2 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Alec Bohm vs Luis Severino
  2. 2+0.30▲9 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Tyler Soderstrom vs Jhoan Duran
  3. 3+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Bryce Harper vs Luis Severino

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Schwarber — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.