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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

NYM @ SD

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.6% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYM
4
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Manny Machado — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Ty France vs Sean Manaea
  2. 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    A.J. Ewing vs Ron Marinaccio
  3. 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Xander Bogaerts vs Sean Manaea

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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