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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

CLE @ NYY

Home plate: Laz Diaz

“ABS had a long evening on this one.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, CLE
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▼2 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Gavin Williams
  2. 2+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Patrick Bailey vs Gerrit Cole
  3. 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Austin Wells vs Colin Holderman

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.