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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-27

WSH @ BAL

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.1% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, WSH
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Coby Mayo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Drew Millas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Nasim Nuñez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Drew Millas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    James Wood vs Brandon Young
  2. 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Pete Alonso vs Foster Griffin
  3. 3-0.09▼1 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Pete Alonso vs Foster Griffin

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Taylor Ward — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Coby Mayo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Leody Taveras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Drew Millas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Nasim Nuñez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Drew Millas — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.