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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-12

STL @ MIN

Home plate: Dan Iassogna

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

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Umpire Grade
96.9% accurate
1.0
Run Favor
runs, MIN
8
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Iassogna called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Alec Burleson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Josh Bell — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: JJ Wetherholt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Luke Keaschall — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Byron Buxton — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Jimmy Crooks — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8Challenge 9: JJ Wetherholt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9Challenge 10: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).10
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The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Blaze Jordan vs Taylor Rogers
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Alec Burleson vs Joe Ryan
  3. 3-0.10▲3 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Lars Nootbaar vs Joe Ryan

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 8 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Alec Burleson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Josh Bell — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5JJ Wetherholt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Byron Buxton — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  9. 9JJ Wetherholt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  10. 10Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.