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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-15

KC @ WSH

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.7% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Nick Loftin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Isaac Collins — 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+0.39▲9 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Lane Thomas vs Gus Varland
  2. 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Brad Lord
  3. 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Isaac Collins vs Andrew Alvarez

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. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Nick Loftin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Isaac Collins — 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.