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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-18

HOU @ MIN

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”

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Umpire Grade
96.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, HOU
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Zach Cole — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Isaac Paredes vs Justin Topa
  2. 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Zach Cole vs Eric Orze
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Simeon Woods Richardson

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. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Zach Cole — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.