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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-03

NYM @ ATL

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“The zone kept its promises.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.7
Run Favor
runs, NYM
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 158 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: Juan Soto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Bo Bichette — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.30▲7 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Juan Soto vs Danny Young
  2. 2-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Mauricio Dubón vs A.J. Minter
  3. 3+0.19▲1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Bo Bichette vs Grant Holmes

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

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

  1. 1Juan Soto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Bo Bichette — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.