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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

SEA @ DET

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Josh Naylor — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Randy Arozarena — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Luke Raley vs Kyle Finnegan
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Rob Refsnyder vs Framber Valdez
  3. 3-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Cole Young vs Framber Valdez

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Randy Arozarena — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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