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RECORD: 0 HIT · 0 MISS · 12 OPEN · FIRST CALL RESOLVES AUG 12
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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-23

KC @ TB

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.1% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Richie Palacios — 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+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Luinder Avila
  2. 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Kameron Misner vs Shane McClanahan
  3. 3-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Yandy Díaz vs Luinder Avila

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. 1Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Taylor Walls — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Richie Palacios — 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.