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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

MIN @ AZ

Home plate: James Hoye

“The zone kept its promises.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, MIN
1
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 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: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Royce Lewis vs Zac Gallen
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Geraldo Perdomo vs Taj Bradley
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.