Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-21
CWS @ DET
Home plate: Jordan Baker
“The zone had wings tonight.”
Umpire Grade
88.1% accurate
Run Favor
runs, CWS
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 111 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
- 1-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Edgar Quero vs Keider Montero - 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Colson Montgomery vs Keider Montero - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.