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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

MIN @ TEX

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Wyatt Langford — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Alex Jackson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Luke Keaschall vs Kumar Rocker
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Royce Lewis vs Cal Quantrill
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Josh Bell vs Kumar Rocker

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

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

  1. 1Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Wyatt Langford — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Alex Jackson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Alex Jackson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.