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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-07

PIT @ AZ

Home plate: Brennan Miller

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, AZ
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Dennis Santana — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jorge Barrosa — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Ryan O'Hearn vs Brandyn Garcia
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Mitch Keller
  3. 3-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Brandon Lowe vs Paul Sewald

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Dennis Santana — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Jorge Barrosa — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.