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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-06

PIT @ ATL

Home plate: Paul Clemons

“You could set a watch by that zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, ATL
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 147 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: Mike Yastrzemski — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Ozzie Albies — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Oneil Cruz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Spencer Horwitz vs Spencer Strider
  2. 2-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Nick Gonzales vs Spencer Strider
  3. 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Austin Riley vs Braxton Ashcraft

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

  1. 1Mike Yastrzemski — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Oneil Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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