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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-08

CHC @ BAL

Home plate: Adrian Johnson

“The robots earned their keep tonight.”

A+
Umpire Grade
97.6% accurate
0.4
Run Favor
runs, BAL
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Adrian Johnson called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 164 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: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Taylor Ward — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Seiya Suzuki — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Adley Rutschman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Carson Kelly — 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+0.10▼2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Colton Cowser vs Colin Rea
  2. 2-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Michael Conforto vs Dean Kremer
  3. 3-0.09▲7 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Pete Crow-Armstrong vs Grant Wolfram

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 · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Taylor Ward — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Seiya Suzuki — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Carson Kelly — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.