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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-15

COL @ CHC

Home plate: James Hoye

“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CHC
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 185 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 171 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: Moisés Ballesteros — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Troy Johnston — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brett Sullivan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.23▼1 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Michael Busch vs Michael Lorenzen
  2. 2+0.23▼5 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Alex Bregman vs Michael Lorenzen
  3. 3+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Matt Shaw vs Michael Lorenzen

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Troy Johnston — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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