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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

PHI @ MIL

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, PHI
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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: Edmundo Sosa — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Rafael Marchán — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Luis Rengifo vs Cristopher Sánchez
  2. 2+0.09▲4 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Alec Bohm vs Kyle Harrison
  3. 3-0.09▲6 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Derek Hill vs Kyle Harrison

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Edmundo Sosa — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Rafael Marchán — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.