Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-27
CIN @ NYM
Home plate: Edwin Moscoso
“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed
What this shows — how Edwin Moscoso called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball
Marcus Semien vs Andrew Abbott - 2-0.30▲7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Tyler Stephenson vs Brooks Raley - 3+0.30▼7 · 3-1 strike called ball
Bo Bichette vs Zach Maxwell
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Brett Baty — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Juan Soto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Sal Stewart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 7Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.