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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-12

COL @ PIT

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

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Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, COL
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Brandon Lowe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bryan Reynolds — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — 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. 1-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Spencer Horwitz vs Jimmy Herget
  2. 2-0.13▼3 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Bryan Reynolds vs Michael Lorenzen
  3. 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Freeman vs Paul Skenes

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

  1. 1Brandon Lowe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — 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.