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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-02

COL @ LAA

Home plate: Bill Miller

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

A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, COL
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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: Jo Adell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Sterlin Thompson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Adam Frazier vs Blas Castaño
  2. 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Sterlin Thompson vs Sam Aldegheri
  3. 3+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Edouard Julien vs Grayson 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. 1Jo Adell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Sterlin Thompson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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