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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

CLE @ TEX

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.7% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TEX
6
ABS Overturns
of 9 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Brayan Rocchio — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Justin Foscue — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).9
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Angel Martínez vs Peyton Gray
  2. 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Wyatt Langford vs Joey Cantillo
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Travis Bazzana vs Tyler Alexander

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

9 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Chase DeLauter — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Brayan Rocchio — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Wyatt Langford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Justin Foscue — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 9 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.