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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12

MIL @ PIT

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, MIL
2
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 145 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: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Henry Davis — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Gary Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Henry Davis vs Bryse Wilson
  2. 2-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Nick Gonzales vs Robert Gasser
  3. 3-0.13▲5 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Braden Shewmake vs Paul Skenes

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gary Sánchez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Henry Davis — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.