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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08

ATL @ LAD

Home plate: Chris Conroy

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

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Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATL
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 119 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Will Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Teoscar Hernández vs Chris Sale
  2. 2+0.20▲3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Drake Baldwin vs Emmet Sheehan
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Santiago Espinal vs Chris Sale

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Will Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drake Baldwin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.