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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-17

LAD @ NYY

Home plate: Junior Valentine

“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.0% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Junior Valentine called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 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: Andy Pages — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Trent Grisham — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ali Sánchez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Max Muncy vs Paul Blackburn
  2. 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Tommy Edman vs Gerrit Cole
  3. 3+0.23▼6 · 0-2 strike called ball
    Trent Grisham vs Roki Sasaki

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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Trent Grisham — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Trent Grisham — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ali Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.