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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

KC @ MIN

Home plate: Dan Bellino

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

B+
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 115 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 107 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: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Nick Loftin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Martin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.21▲7 · 3-0 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Zebby Matthews
  2. 2+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Michael Massey vs Zebby Matthews
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Zebby Matthews

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Nick Loftin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Martin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.