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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29

TEX @ CLE

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.1% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CLE
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 118 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 111 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: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Steven Kwan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Gabriel Arias vs Jacob Latz
  2. 2+0.23▼7 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Jakob Junis
  3. 3+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Rhys Hoskins vs Chris Paddack

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Steven Kwan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.