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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

KC @ WSH

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Maikel Garcia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Nick Loftin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — 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+0.69▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Lane Thomas vs Foster Griffin
  2. 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Maikel Garcia vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Salvador Perez vs Foster Griffin

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

  1. 1Maikel Garcia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Nick Loftin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.