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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30

DET @ NYY

Home plate: Mike Estabrook

“Hawkeye clocked in early and stayed late.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, DET
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Estabrook called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hao-Yu Lee — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Spencer Jones — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Dillon Dingler — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: José Caballero — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▼8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Spencer Jones vs Jacob Waguespack
  2. 2-0.20▲4 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    James Outman vs Cam Schlittler
  3. 3-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Ben Rice vs Jacob Waguespack

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dillon Dingler — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Hao-Yu Lee — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ali Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Spencer Jones — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7José Caballero — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.