Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20
NYM @ PHI
Home plate: Chad Whitson
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 130 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+0.10▼7 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Justin Crawford vs Tobias Myers - 2-0.09▲3 · 0-0 ball called strike
Zack Short vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.09▼3 · 0-0 strike called ball
Brandon Marsh vs Freddy Peralta
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Eric Wagaman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Gabriel Rincones Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.