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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

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Home plate: Bill Miller

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

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Umpire Grade
96.4% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
even
5
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Isaac Paredes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jose Altuve — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: George Springer — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Kazuma Okamoto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Yainer Diaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Hunter Brown
  2. 2+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Yainer Diaz vs Dylan Cease
  3. 3-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Jesús Sánchez vs Hunter Brown

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Isaac Paredes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Jose Altuve — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4George Springer — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Kazuma Okamoto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Yainer Diaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.