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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-30

TB @ KC

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, TB
6
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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: Carter Jensen — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ryan Vilade — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Jac Caglianone — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Junior Caminero vs Noah Cameron
  2. 2+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Ryan Vilade vs Steven Cruz
  3. 3+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Jonathan Aranda vs Noah Cameron

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Jac Caglianone — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  8. 8Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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