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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

LAD @ ATH

Home plate: Manny Gonzalez

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.7% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, ATH
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Manny Gonzalez called the 169 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Jeff McNeil — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Kyle Tucker — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Alex Freeland — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼3 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Max Muncy vs Eric Lauer
  2. 2+0.19▲3 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Gage Jump
  3. 3-0.19▲5 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Teoscar Hernández vs Gage Jump

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

4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Jeff McNeil — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Kyle Tucker — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Alex Freeland — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.