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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

NYY @ TB

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B-
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, TB
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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: Taylor Walls — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲1 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Ian Seymour
  2. 2-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Jazz Chisholm Jr. vs Ian Seymour
  3. 3-0.10▼1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Cedric Mullins vs Will Warren

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

2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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