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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-17

SF @ ATL

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“The zone showed up, did the job, and went home. Ideal.”

A+
Umpire Grade
98.1% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, ATL
2
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Sandy León — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Eric Haase — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.09▲1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Rafael Devers vs JR Ritchie
  2. 2-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Matt Chapman vs JR Ritchie
  3. 3+0.09▼6 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Eli White vs JT Brubaker

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sandy León — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.