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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

BAL @ LAA

Home plate: John Libka

“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.6% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, LAA
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how John Libka called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Sam Huff — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Denzer Guzman vs Kyle Bradish
  2. 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Leody Taveras vs José Fermin
  3. 3+0.13▼1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Jorge Soler vs Kyle Bradish

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. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Sam Huff — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.