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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

CHC @ NYM

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

A+
Umpire Grade
98.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, NYM
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 199 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 195 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: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Carson Kelly — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▼9 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Francisco Alvarez vs Jayden Murray
  2. 2+0.13▼9 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Francisco Alvarez vs Jayden Murray
  3. 3-0.09▲2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Dansby Swanson vs Kodai Senga

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Mark Vientos — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.