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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-22

KC @ TB

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.0% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Maikel Garcia — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jonathan Aranda — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Lane Thomas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ryan Vilade — 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. 1-0.13▲9 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Salvador Perez vs Craig Kimbrel
  2. 2+0.09▼2 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Michael Wacha
  3. 3+0.09▼4 · 0-0 strike called ball
    Junior Caminero vs Michael Wacha

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Maikel Garcia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Jonathan Aranda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Lane Thomas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ryan Vilade — 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.