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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

CLE @ MIN

Home plate: Marvin Hudson

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CLE
3
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Marvin Hudson called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Victor Caratini — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Chase DeLauter — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Taj Bradley
  2. 2+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Luke Keaschall vs Joey Cantillo
  3. 3+0.10▼4 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Josh Bell vs Joey Cantillo

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

  1. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Victor Caratini — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Chase DeLauter — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.