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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28

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Home plate: Alan Porter

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, TOR
4
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alejandro Kirk — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Andrés Giménez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Josh Jung vs Shane Bieber
  2. 2-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Corey Seager vs Louis Varland
  3. 3+0.10▼1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Kazuma Okamoto vs Kumar Rocker

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Andrés Giménez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.