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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12

AZ @ CIN

Home plate: Alex MacKay

“ABS had a long evening on this one.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, CIN
6
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 201 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 189 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: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: JJ Bleday — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼1 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    JJ Bleday vs Eduardo Rodriguez
  2. 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Matt McLain vs Taylor Clarke
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    JJ Bleday vs Eduardo Rodriguez

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1JJ Bleday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3JJ Bleday — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.