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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-09

NYY @ CLE

Home plate: Jacob Metz

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, NYY
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jazz Chisholm Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Rhys Hoskins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Ryan McMahon — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Ryan McMahon — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Chase DeLauter vs Gerrit Cole
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Rhys Hoskins vs Paul Blackburn
  3. 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Tim Herrin

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Travis Bazzana — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Jazz Chisholm Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Rhys Hoskins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Ryan McMahon — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Ryan McMahon — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 8 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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