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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

SF @ LAD

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, SF
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Gilbert — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Eric Haase — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Teoscar Hernández — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Miguel Rojas vs Landen Roupp
  2. 2-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jung Hoo Lee vs Alex Vesia
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Heliot Ramos vs Emmet Sheehan

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Gilbert — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Teoscar Hernández — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.