Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

SD @ TEX

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”

Umpire Grade

90.5% accurate

Run Favor

runs, SD

ABS Overturns

of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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

1-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
Samad Taylor vs MacKenzie Gore
2+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Ty France vs Tyler Alexander
3+0.21▲2 · 3-0 strike called ball
Xander Bogaerts vs MacKenzie Gore

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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
2Brandon Nimmo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
3Brandon Nimmo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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