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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-14

WSH @ CIN

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.6% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, WSH
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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: James Wood — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Luis García Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲3 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Drew Millas vs Chase Burns
  2. 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Elly De La Cruz vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Matt McLain vs Foster Griffin

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

  1. 1James Wood — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4JJ Bleday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Luis García Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.