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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-15

DET @ HOU

Home plate: Paul Clemons

“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, HOU
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Drew Anderson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jake Meyers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Riley Greene vs Kai-Wei Teng
  2. 2-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Jahmai Jones vs Jayden Murray
  3. 3-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Riley Greene vs Kai-Wei Teng

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jose Altuve — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Kevin McGonigle — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Drew Anderson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Jake Meyers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.