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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-04

PHI @ KC

Home plate: Alex MacKay

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

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Umpire Grade
96.0% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, KC
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Alex MacKay called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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: Alec Bohm — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Carter Jensen vs Jesús Luzardo
  2. 2+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Carter Jensen vs Orion Kerkering
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Justin Crawford vs Jose Cuas

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Alec Bohm — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.