Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29
MIA @ COL
Home plate: Paul Clemons
“This one went to video review more than most.”
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, COL
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed
What this shows — how Paul Clemons called the 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.30▲1 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
Xavier Edwards vs Sean Sullivan - 2+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball
Troy Johnston vs Sandy Alcantara - 3+0.21▼6 · 3-0 strike called ball
Edouard Julien vs Sandy Alcantara
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Xavier Edwards — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Edouard Julien — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Edouard Julien — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.