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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

ATH @ CWS

Home plate: Gabe Morales

“A clean sheet behind the plate — the kind of night nobody posts about.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.9% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, ATH
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Gabe Morales called the 122 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 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: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Colby Thomas — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼3 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Drew Romo vs Gage Jump
  2. 2+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Munetaka Murakami vs Gage Jump
  3. 3-0.09▲7 · 0-0 ball called strike
    Lawrence Butler vs Sean Newcomb

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

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

  1. 1Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Colby Thomas — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.