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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

HOU @ KC

Home plate: Jacob Metz

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Taylor Trammell — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲5 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Brice Matthews vs Stephen Kolek
  2. 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Spencer Arrighetti
  3. 3-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Michael Massey vs Spencer Arrighetti

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Taylor Trammell — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.