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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-17

TEX @ HOU

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

“A few too many trips to the challenge cart.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, TEX
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alejandro Osuna — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: César Salazar — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Duran vs Peter Lambert
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Duran vs Peter Lambert
  3. 3-0.10▼5 · 0-1 ball called strike
    César Salazar vs Nathan Eovaldi

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Justin Foscue — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Alejandro Osuna — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5César Salazar — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.