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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-24

WSH @ ATL

Home plate: Brock Ballou

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Umpire Grade
95.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Dylan Crews vs Martín Pérez
  2. 2+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Matt Olson vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball
    CJ Abrams vs Reynaldo López

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. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.