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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-21

CWS @ DET

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The zone had wings tonight.”

D
Umpire Grade
88.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, DET
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 126 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 112 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: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Edgar Quero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Edgar Quero vs Keider Montero
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Colson Montgomery vs Keider Montero
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Sam Antonacci vs Drew Sommers

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.