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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

PHI @ BOS

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“The black wasn't in play tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, BOS
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 117 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 107 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: Connor Wong — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Caleb Durbin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▼1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Willson Contreras vs Andrew Painter
  2. 2+0.13▲3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Justin Crawford vs Sonny Gray
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Adolis García vs Justin Slaten

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Connor Wong — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.