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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

BOS @ KC

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“You could set a watch by that zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Carlos Narváez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Sogard — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲4 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Nick Sogard vs Michael Wacha
  2. 2-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Jac Caglianone vs Jovani Morán
  3. 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Isiah Kiner-Falefa vs Michael Wacha

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

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

  1. 1Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Sogard — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.