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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-26

HOU @ TEX

Home plate: Adrian Johnson

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, HOU
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 122 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Higashioka — 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+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Christian Walker vs Jack Leiter
  2. 2-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Evan Carter vs AJ Blubaugh
  3. 3-0.20▲7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Jakob Junis

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.