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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-17

CHC @ CWS

Home plate: Chris Segal

“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.2% accurate
1.7
Run Favor
runs, CHC
9
ABS Overturns
of 12 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 205 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 187 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: Alex Bregman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).10Challenge 11: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).11Challenge 12: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).12
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Seiya Suzuki vs Erick Fedde
  2. 2-0.28▼7 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Miguel Vargas vs Hoby Milner
  3. 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Carson Kelly vs Bryan Hudson

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

12 pitches went to the robots · 9 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alex Bregman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  10. 10Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  11. 11Miguel Amaya — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  12. 12Seiya Suzuki — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 12 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.