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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

COL @ SF

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, COL
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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 Freeman — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Edouard Julien — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (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
    Jake McCarthy vs Carson Whisenhunt
  2. 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Hunter Goodman vs Carson Whisenhunt
  3. 3+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Luis Arraez vs Ryan Feltner

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. 1Tyler Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Edouard Julien — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.