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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-27

AZ @ TB

Home plate: Bill Miller

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 129 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: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Yandy Díaz vs Jose Cabrera
  2. 2-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Adrian Del Castillo vs Michael Grove
  3. 3+0.13▲7 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Max Kepler vs Kevin Kelly

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.