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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-12

KC @ CWS

Home plate: Chris Conroy

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

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Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — 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. 1-0.39▼5 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Munetaka Murakami vs Stephen Kolek
  2. 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Erick Fedde
  3. 3-0.10▲7 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Jac Caglianone vs Grant Taylor

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. 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Romo — 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.