Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
Umpire Grade
93.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, MIN
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed
What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Royce Lewis vs José Soriano - 2+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged
Josh Bell vs José Soriano - 3+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Mike Trout vs Andrew Morris
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.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.