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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-25

COL @ LAD

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, LAD
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 118 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: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Troy Johnston — 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+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Mookie Betts vs Tanner Gordon
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Will Klein
  3. 3+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Hyeseong Kim vs Tanner Gordon

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. 1Mookie Betts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Edouard Julien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Troy Johnston — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.