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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-05

CLE @ KC

Home plate: John Bacon

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, KC
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how John Bacon called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Steven Kwan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Bo Naylor — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: David Fry — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Bo Naylor vs Stephen Kolek
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Kyle Manzardo vs Stephen Kolek
  3. 3-0.09▲6 · 0-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    José Ramírez vs Stephen Kolek

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Steven Kwan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Bo Naylor — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5David Fry — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.