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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

COL @ ATH

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“The zone stretched its legs.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, ATH
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 180 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: Willi Castro — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Hunter Goodman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲4 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Braxton Fulford vs Jeffrey Springs
  2. 2-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Max Muncy vs Eiberson Castellano
  3. 3+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    TJ Rumfield vs Jeffrey Springs

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.