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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10

MIL @ ATH

Home plate: Brock Ballou

“Squeezed the edges; the hitters didn't mind at all.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, MIL
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Brock Ballou called the 105 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 97 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: William Contreras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Christian Yelich vs Jack Perkins
  2. 2-0.21▼7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Nick Kurtz vs Aaron Ashby
  3. 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Zack Gelof vs Trevor Megill

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Kurtz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.