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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

CWS @ MIN

Home plate: Brennan Miller

“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, CWS
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Chase Meidroth — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Drew Romo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Miguel Vargas vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2-0.39▼2 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Josh Bell vs Erick Fedde
  3. 3+0.39▲7 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Drew Romo vs Taylor Rogers

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Drew Romo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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