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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-19

TEX @ COL

Home plate: Alan Porter

Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, COL
1
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Danny Jansen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.309 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Justin Foscue vs Brett Sullivan
  2. 2-0.138 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Josh Jung vs Seth Halvorsen
  3. 3+0.139 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Joc Pederson vs Brett Sullivan

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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

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