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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-26

COL @ LAD

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, COL
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Sterlin Thompson — 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. 1-0.21▲9 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Tyler Freeman vs Miguel Rojas
  2. 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Braxton Fulford vs Eric Lauer
  3. 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Chad Stevens vs Eric Lauer

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. 1Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Sterlin Thompson — 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.