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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

SF @ ATL

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The zone leaned, and the ledger noticed.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, SF
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 179 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: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Daniel Susac — 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▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Drew Gilbert vs Grant Holmes
  2. 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Drew Gilbert vs Anthony Molina
  3. 3-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ozzie Albies vs Robbie Ray

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

  1. 1Bryce Eldridge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Daniel Susac — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.