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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-07

NYM @ SD

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.1% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
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 149 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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Manny Machado — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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 strike, the robot ruled ball (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+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Xander Bogaerts vs Sean Manaea
  3. 3+0.19▼2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Samad Taylor 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

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

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.