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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

DET @ NYM

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

D
Umpire Grade
87.7% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, NYM
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Bo Bichette — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Riley Greene — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Spencer Torkelson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Juan Soto vs Keider Montero
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Carson Benge vs Keider Montero
  3. 3+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Brett Baty vs Ricky Vanasco

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

  1. 1Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Riley Greene — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Spencer Torkelson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.