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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-25

AZ @ SF

Home plate: James Hoye

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, SF
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nolan Arenado — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Bryce Eldridge vs Merrill Kelly
  2. 2-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Sam Hentges
  3. 3-0.10▼4 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Matt Chapman vs Merrill Kelly

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Daniel Susac — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Nolan Arenado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Daniel Susac — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.