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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05

TB @ HOU

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“The players kept asking for a second opinion — and kept getting one.”

B-
Umpire Grade
91.7% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, TB
5
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Hunter Feduccia — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Taylor Trammell — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Mason Englert — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Yordan Alvarez vs Mason Englert
  2. 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Isaac Paredes vs Craig Kimbrel
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Peter Lambert

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

  1. 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Taylor Trammell — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Mason Englert — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.