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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-17

BAL @ HOU

Home plate: Erich Bacchus

“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.2% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, HOU
0
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Erich Bacchus called the 193 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 178 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: Dylan Beavers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Christian Vázquez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Jackson Holliday vs Peter Lambert
  2. 2-0.20▼2 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Lucas Spence vs Dean Kremer
  3. 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Jeremy Peña vs Dean Kremer

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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Dylan Beavers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.