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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-19

NYM @ PHI

Home plate: Felix Neon

“ABS had a long evening on this one.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.2% accurate
0.3
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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 165 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Carson Benge — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.8*
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.

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

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 7 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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