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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-01

TEX @ CLE

Home plate: Chris Segal

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chris Segal called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Jake Burger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Kyle Higashioka — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Austin Hedges — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Gabriel Arias — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.19▼7 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Rhys Hoskins vs Winston Santos
  2. 2+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Duran vs Joey Cantillo
  3. 3-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Daniel Schneemann vs Winston Santos

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jake Burger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Gabriel Arias — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.