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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-19

LAA @ ATH

Home plate: Dan Merzel

“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”

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Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 209 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 200 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: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Henry Bolte — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Tyler Heineman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Henry Bolte vs José Soriano
  2. 2-0.21▼10 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Henry Bolte vs Kirby Yates
  3. 3+0.09▲1 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Nolan Schanuel vs Jeffrey Springs

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Kurtz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Tyler Heineman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.