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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

LAA @ TEX

Home plate: Chad Whitson

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, TEX
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Nolan Schanuel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Elias Díaz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Jorge Soler — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼8 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Cam Cauley vs Sam Bachman
  2. 2-0.19▲8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Denzer Guzman vs Peyton Gray
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Brandon Nimmo vs José Soriano

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

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

  1. 1Nolan Schanuel — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Elias Díaz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.