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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

CLE @ MIA

Home plate: Chad Fairchild

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, CLE
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Chad Fairchild called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Steven Kwan — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Joe Mack — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Otto Lopez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Otto Lopez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Gabriel Arias vs Lake Bachar
  2. 2-0.13▼3 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Heriberto Hernández vs Joey Cantillo
  3. 3-0.13▲4 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Steven Kwan vs Tyler Zuber

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. 1Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Steven Kwan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Otto Lopez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Otto Lopez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.