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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

PIT @ ATH

Home plate: Chris Guccione

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATH
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Guccione called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Endy Rodríguez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Tyler Soderstrom — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Tyler Soderstrom — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Carlos Cortes vs Mitch Keller
  2. 2-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Bryan Reynolds vs Jack Perkins
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Tyler Callihan vs Jack Perkins

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

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

  1. 1Endy Rodríguez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Tyler Soderstrom — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Tyler Soderstrom — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.