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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

COL @ LAA

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, LAA
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 169 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Sterlin Thompson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Nick Madrigal — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Vaughn Grissom — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Mike Trout vs Seth Halvorsen
  2. 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Troy Johnston vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  3. 3-0.28▼2 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Wade Meckler vs Michael Lorenzen

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Sterlin Thompson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Nick Madrigal — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Vaughn Grissom — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.