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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-08

NYY @ MIL

Home plate: Alan Porter

“You had to throw it down Broadway to get the call.”

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Max Fried — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jackson Chourio — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Jacob Misiorowski
  2. 2+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Gary Sánchez vs Max Fried
  3. 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Brice Turang vs Max Fried

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Max Fried — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jackson Chourio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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