Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-12
PHI @ DET
Home plate: Edwin Moscoso
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
Umpire Grade
95.8% accurate
Run Favor
runs, DET
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed
What this shows — how Edwin Moscoso called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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
Colt Keith vs Zack Wheeler - 2-0.19▲7 · 2-0 ball called strike· challenged
Bryce Harper vs Keider Montero - 3+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Derek Hill vs Tarik Skubal
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.
- 1Kerry Carpenter — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Bryce Harper — 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.