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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-31

MIN @ PIT

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIN
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 128 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: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Trevor Larnach — 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+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Austin Martin vs Braxton Ashcraft
  2. 2-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Henry Davis vs Mike Paredes
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Austin Martin vs Braxton Ashcraft

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. 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Trevor Larnach — 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.