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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-19

SF @ MIA

Home plate: Jacob Metz

“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIA
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Jacob Metz called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Joe Mack — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jung Hoo Lee — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Joe Mack — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Daniel Susac — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Willy Adames vs Tyler Zuber
  2. 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Drew Gilbert vs Pete Fairbanks
  3. 3-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Otto Lopez vs Landen Roupp

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

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

  1. 1Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jung Hoo Lee — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Joe Mack — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Daniel Susac — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.