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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

CLE @ MIA

Home plate: Chad Whitson

“The zone had wings tonight.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.7% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, CLE
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Whitson called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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: Kyle Stowers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Kyle Stowers — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▼4 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Jakob Marsee vs Tanner Bibee
  2. 2-0.13▼9 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Javier Sanoja vs Colin Holderman
  3. 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Gabriel Arias vs Eury Pérez

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Stowers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Kyle Stowers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

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.