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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-18

NYM @ PHI

Home plate: Brian Walsh

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, NYM
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Brian Walsh called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Brett Baty — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Francisco Alvarez vs Seth Johnson
  2. 2+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Francisco Alvarez vs Aaron Nola
  3. 3+0.13▲9 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Juan Soto vs Bryse Wilson

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. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Brett Baty — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.