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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-09

DET @ KC

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Zach McKinstry — 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. 1-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Colt Keith vs Michael Wacha
  2. 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Zach McKinstry vs Steven Cruz
  3. 3+0.21▲6 · 3-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Riley Greene vs Michael Wacha

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

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Carter Jensen — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Zach McKinstry — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.