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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10

LAD @ PIT

Home plate: Felix Neon

“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, LAD
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Felix Neon called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Alex Call — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Alex Call — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Shohei Ohtani vs Carmen Mlodzinski
  2. 2+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Kyle Tucker vs Jared Jones
  3. 3+0.28▲6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Freddie Freeman vs Carmen Mlodzinski

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Mookie Betts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Endy Rodríguez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Alex Call — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Alex Call — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.