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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08

DET @ KC

Home plate: Dexter Kelley

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.9% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, DET
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Dexter Kelley called the 153 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: Kris Bubic — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bobby Witt Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Carter Jensen vs Keider Montero
  2. 2-0.39▲6 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Kris Bubic
  3. 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Zack Short vs Kris Bubic

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. 1Kris Bubic — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Bobby Witt Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.