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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-13

DET @ CLE

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 127 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: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: David Fry — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: James Outman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Wenceel Pérez vs Joey Cantillo
  2. 2-0.13▲2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Spencer Torkelson vs Joey Cantillo
  3. 3+0.13▲9 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Gleyber Torres vs Cade Smith

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2David Fry — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3James Outman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Kevin McGonigle — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.