Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-29
WSH @ BOS
Home plate: Edwin Moscoso
“Expanded the plate a touch past its 17 inches.”
Umpire Grade
93.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, BOS
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Edwin Moscoso called the 124 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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
- 1-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike
Curtis Mead vs Ranger Suarez - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Curtis Mead vs Ranger Suarez - 3+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball
CJ Abrams vs Ranger Suarez
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Curtis Mead — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Carlos Narváez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.