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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-21

TOR @ NYY

Home plate: Brennan Miller

“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Brandon Valenzuela — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Daulton Varsho vs Carlos Rodón
  2. 2-0.21▲3 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Vladimir Guerrero Jr. vs Carlos Rodón
  3. 3-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    J.C. Escarra vs Tyler Rogers

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. 1Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.