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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22

ATH @ SD

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, ATH
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rodolfo Durán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Walker Buehler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brent Rooker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Henry Bolte vs Walker Buehler
  2. 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ramón Laureano vs Jeffrey Springs
  3. 3-0.13▲6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jeff McNeil vs Bradgley Rodriguez

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Rodolfo Durán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Walker Buehler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Brent Rooker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.