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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-21

NYM @ WSH

Home plate: Chris Segal

“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, NYM
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Marcus Semien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bo Bichette — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Luis García Jr. — 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. 1-0.21▼5 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Curtis Mead vs David Peterson
  2. 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Brett Baty vs Cade Cavalli
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Daylen Lile vs David Peterson

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Marcus Semien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Luis García Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.