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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-11

LAD @ PIT

Home plate: Chris Conroy

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B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, PIT
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Conroy called the 191 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Ryan O'Hearn — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jake Mangum — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Kyle Tucker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Max Muncy vs Mitch Keller
  2. 2+0.19▼3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Rafael Flores Jr. vs Justin Wrobleski
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Andy Pages vs Mitch Keller

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mookie Betts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jake Mangum — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.