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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

DET @ NYM

Home plate: Junior Valentine

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brett Baty — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Jahmai Jones — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Spencer Torkelson vs Christian Scott
  2. 2-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Bo Bichette vs Framber Valdez
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Kevin McGonigle vs Christian Scott

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Brett Baty — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Jahmai Jones — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.