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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

STL @ ATH

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, STL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Pedro Pagés — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: José Fermín — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Alec Burleson vs J.T. Ginn
  2. 2+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Alec Burleson vs J.T. Ginn
  3. 3-0.13▲3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Iván Herrera vs J.T. Ginn

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

  1. 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3José Fermín — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.