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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-18

CWS @ NYY

Home plate: Gabe Morales

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

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Umpire Grade
95.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYY
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 108 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 103 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: Tristan Peters — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲5 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Luisangel Acuña vs Ryan Weathers
  2. 2-0.09▲3 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Chase Meidroth vs Ryan Weathers
  3. 3-0.09▲6 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Randal Grichuk vs Ryan Weathers

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tristan Peters — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Edgar Quero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

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.