Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29
MIN @ HOU
Home plate: Brennan Miller
“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how Brennan Miller called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
- 1-0.69▼9 · 3-2 ball called strike
Christian Walker vs Travis Adams - 2+0.30▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball
Victor Caratini vs Peter Lambert - 3+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball
Tristan Gray vs Peter Lambert
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Nick Allen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.