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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-22

CLE @ PHI

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, CLE
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 107 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 100 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: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Travis Bazzana — 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. 1-0.69▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    J.T. Realmuto vs Gavin Williams
  2. 2+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    J.T. Realmuto vs Gavin Williams
  3. 3-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Schwarber vs Gavin Williams

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. 1Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Travis Bazzana — 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.