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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-15

SD @ SEA

Home plate: Bill Miller

“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”

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Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, SD
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jhonny Pereda — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Connor Joe vs Adrian Morejon
  2. 2+0.10▲3 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Jackson Merrill vs Emerson Hancock
  3. 3-0.10▲4 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Xander Bogaerts vs Emerson Hancock

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jhonny Pereda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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