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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

ATL @ CIN

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jorge Mateo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Sandy León vs Brady Singer
  2. 2-0.23▼6 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Sal Stewart vs Tyler Kinley
  3. 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Tyler Stephenson vs Martín Pérez

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.