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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-11

MIL @ PIT

Home plate: Malachi Moore

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

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Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, MIL
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Malachi Moore called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Marcell Ozuna — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Rafael Flores Jr. — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Marcell Ozuna — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: William Contreras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Brice Turang vs Bubba Chandler
  2. 2+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Brice Turang vs Bubba Chandler
  3. 3+0.10▲6 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Joey Ortiz vs Yohan Ramírez

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

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

  1. 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Marcell Ozuna — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.