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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

HOU @ CHC

Home plate: Bill Miller

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, HOU
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Michael Busch — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Zach Dezenzo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Christian Vázquez — 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+0.39▼5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Seiya Suzuki vs Peter Lambert
  2. 2+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Cam Smith vs Shota Imanaga
  3. 3-0.21▼9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Nate Pearson

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. 1Michael Busch — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Zach Dezenzo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Christian Vázquez — 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.