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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

DET @ NYY

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, DET
6
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Jasson Domínguez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Oswaldo Cabrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▼2 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Casey Mize
  2. 2+0.13▲4 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Kerry Carpenter vs Tim Hill
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Matt Vierling vs Camilo Doval

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 · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Jasson Domínguez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Oswaldo Cabrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.