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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

PHI @ LAD

Home plate: James Hoye

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, PHI
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Will Smith — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Bryce Harper vs Roki Sasaki
  2. 2+0.39▲2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    J.T. Realmuto vs Roki Sasaki
  3. 3+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Will Smith vs Jesús Luzardo

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. 1Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Will Smith — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.