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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

CWS @ PHI

Home plate: Alex MacKay

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, PHI
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 186 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 182 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: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Colson Montgomery — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Miguel Vargas vs Aaron Nola
  2. 2+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Alec Bohm vs David Sandlin
  3. 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Andrew Benintendi vs Aaron Nola

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Rafael Marchán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Colson Montgomery — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.