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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

LAA @ ATH

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 165 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Nick Kurtz vs Ryan Zeferjahn
  2. 2-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Donovan Walton vs Geoff Hartlieb
  3. 3+0.13▼9 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Colby Thomas vs Kirby Yates

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Nolan Schanuel — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.