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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

MIA @ ATH

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

A-
Umpire Grade
95.0% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, MIA
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 198 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 188 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: Esteury Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Brian Navarreto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Brian Serven — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Otto Lopez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Max Muncy — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Joe Mack — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Esteury Ruiz vs Justin Sterner
  2. 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Brian Serven vs Eury Pérez
  3. 3+0.20▼8 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Lawrence Butler vs Lake Bachar

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Esteury Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Brian Navarreto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Brian Serven — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Otto Lopez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Max Muncy — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  7. 7Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.