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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-13

TB @ TOR

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.8% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, TOR
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Hunter Feduccia — 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+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Dylan Cease
  2. 2+0.69▼10 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Aaron Brooks
  3. 3-0.39▲1 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Dylan Cease

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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