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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-16

SD @ SEA

Home plate: Brian Walsh

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 146 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Jhonny Pereda — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Gavin Sheets — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Nick Davila
  2. 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jhonny Pereda vs Walker Buehler
  3. 3+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Leo Rivas vs Walker Buehler

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. 1Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gavin Sheets — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.