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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

NYM @ WSH

Home plate: John Bacon

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

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Umpire Grade
87.6% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, WSH
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how John Bacon called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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: Nasim Nuñez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nasim Nuñez — 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. 1-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Hayden Senger vs Zack Littell
  2. 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Crews vs Zach Thornton
  3. 3+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Nasim Nuñez vs Craig Kimbrel

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. 1Nasim Nuñez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nasim Nuñez — 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.