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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-20

SD @ TEX

Home plate: Doug Eddings

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

B-
Umpire Grade
91.1% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, SD
1
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 153 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brandon Nimmo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Brandon Nimmo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲5 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Samad Taylor vs MacKenzie Gore
  2. 2+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Ty France vs Tyler Alexander
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

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