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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

CIN @ MIL

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, CIN
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 159 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: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Dane Myers vs Robert Gasser
  2. 2-0.09▼6 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Joey Ortiz vs Chase Petty
  3. 3+0.09▲8 · 0-0 strike called ball
    TJ Friedl vs Aaron Ashby

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.