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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-20

TOR @ NYY

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 115 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ryan McMahon — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Anthony Volpe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Austin Wells vs Trey Yesavage
  2. 2-0.19▼2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Trent Grisham vs Trey Yesavage
  3. 3+0.13▼9 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Amed Rosario vs Louis Varland

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. 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ryan McMahon — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Anthony Volpe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.