Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20
MIN @ AZ
Home plate: James Hoye
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
95.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 209 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 199 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs Zac Gallen - 2+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Geraldo Perdomo vs Taj Bradley - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-1 ball called strike
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. vs Taj Bradley
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.