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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

MIL @ HOU

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, HOU
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Yordan Alvarez vs Brandon Sproat
  2. 2+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Christian Yelich vs Peter Lambert
  3. 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Jake Meyers vs Carlos Rodriguez

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

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

  1. 1Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.