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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

BAL @ TB

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TB
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Pete Alonso — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Trevor Rogers
  2. 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Taylor Walls vs Cameron Foster
  3. 3+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Yandy Díaz vs Trevor Rogers

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Taylor Walls — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Pete Alonso — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.