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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-12

SF @ LAD

Home plate: Brian Walsh

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAD
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Eric Haase — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Eric Haase — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Teoscar Hernández — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Freddie Freeman vs Adrian Houser
  2. 2+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Andy Pages vs Adrian Houser
  3. 3-0.10▼2 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Hyeseong Kim vs Adrian Houser

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

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jung Hoo Lee — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.