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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-03

STL @ CHC

Home plate: Dan Bellino

“The robots earned their keep tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, CHC
6
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Bellino called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Iván Herrera — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Alex Bregman — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: JJ Wetherholt — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Masyn Winn — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: José Fermín — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Andre Pallante
  2. 2-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike
    José Fermín vs David Peterson
  3. 3+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Michael Conforto vs Andre Pallante

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Alex Bregman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4JJ Wetherholt — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Masyn Winn — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6José Fermín — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.