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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12

ATL @ NYM

Home plate: John Bacon

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, NYM
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how John Bacon called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ozzie Albies — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wynns — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Mauricio Dubón vs Nolan McLean
  2. 2-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jorge Mateo vs Brooks Raley
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Austin Riley vs Nolan McLean

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. 1Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Austin Wynns — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Ozzie Albies — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.