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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

ATH @ CWS

Home plate: Doug Eddings

“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”

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Umpire Grade
96.5% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, CWS
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Doug Eddings called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 110 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 Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Munetaka Murakami — 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. 1-0.20▲8 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Jonah Heim vs Tyler Schweitzer
  2. 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Lawrence Butler vs Noah Schultz
  3. 3+0.13▲8 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Shea Langeliers vs Tyler Schweitzer

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. 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.