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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-14

SD @ BAL

Home plate: Felix Neon

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A
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, SD
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Felix Neon called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Blaze Alexander — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Manny Machado — 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+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Manny Machado vs Anthony Nunez
  2. 2+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Samuel Basallo vs Adrian Morejon
  3. 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Samad Taylor vs Trevor Rogers

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Leody Taveras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Blaze Alexander — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Manny Machado — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.