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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-02

CLE @ NYY

Home plate: Chris Segal

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYY
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Anthony Volpe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Kyle Manzardo vs Ryan Yarbrough
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    José Ramírez vs Cam Schlittler
  3. 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Joey Cantillo

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Anthony Volpe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.