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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-03

PIT @ HOU

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.6% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, PIT
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 238 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 230 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: Marcell Ozuna — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Spencer Horwitz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Jared Triolo vs Bryan King
  2. 2+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Oneil Cruz vs Alimber Santa
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Nick Gonzales vs AJ Blubaugh

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Spencer Horwitz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.