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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

LAD @ NYY

Home plate: Jordan Baker

“The Automated Ball-Strike System put in some overtime here.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.6% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, LAD
7
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Jordan Baker called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 135 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Andy Pages — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: José Caballero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Eliezer Alfonzo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Eliezer Alfonzo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▼5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Cody Bellinger vs Jack Dreyer
  2. 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Paul Goldschmidt vs Kyle Hurt
  3. 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    José Caballero vs Edgardo Henriquez

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

8 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Andy Pages — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2José Caballero — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Eliezer Alfonzo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Eliezer Alfonzo — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 8 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.

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