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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-07

PHI @ CIN

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

B+
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CIN
8
ABS Overturns
of 10 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Spencer Steer — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Nathaniel Lowe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Kyle Schwarber — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Eugenio Suárez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).9Challenge 10: TJ Friedl — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).10
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Bryson Stott vs Andrew Abbott
  2. 2+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball
    J.T. Realmuto vs Andrew Abbott
  3. 3+0.39▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball
    JJ Bleday vs Orion Kerkering

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

10 pitches went to the robots · 8 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Spencer Steer — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Nathaniel Lowe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Eugenio Suárez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  9. 9Tyler Stephenson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  10. 10TJ Friedl — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.