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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-08

NYY @ TB

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, TB
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 112 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 104 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: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Cody Bellinger — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Chandler Simpson vs Gerrit Cole
  2. 2-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Shane McClanahan
  3. 3-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Yandy Díaz vs Fernando Cruz

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Cody Bellinger — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.