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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12

COL @ ATH

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

“The zone kept its promises.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATH
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: TJ Rumfield — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Braxton Fulford vs Gage Jump
  2. 2+0.23▲9 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Cole Carrigg vs Hogan Harris
  3. 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Tyler Soderstrom vs Jeff Criswell

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1TJ Rumfield — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.