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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

TB @ NYY

Home plate: Doug Eddings

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Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Aaron Judge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲2 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Ryan Weathers
  2. 2+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Aaron Judge vs Drew Rasmussen
  3. 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Drew Rasmussen

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jonathan Aranda — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Aaron Judge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

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.