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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

NYM @ PHI

Home plate: Felix Neon

“ABS had a long evening on this one.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.9% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, NYM
6
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Felix Neon called the 183 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 170 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: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Bo Bichette — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: A.J. Ewing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Carson Benge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲7 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Juan Soto vs Seth Johnson
  2. 2-0.20▼9 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Alec Bohm vs Cionel Pérez
  3. 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Juan Soto vs Alan Rangel

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 · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5A.J. Ewing — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  6. 6Carson Benge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Bryce Harper — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.