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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-24

ATL @ BAL

Home plate: James Hoye

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

B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, ATL
8
ABS Overturns
of 11 reviewed

What this shows — how James Hoye called the 158 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. 145 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Joey Bart — 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.5*Challenge 6: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).8Challenge 9: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).9Challenge 10: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).10Challenge 11: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled). Our tracking puts it on the other side of the line; the grade follows the ruling.11*
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+0.69▼6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Leody Taveras vs Danny Young
  2. 2-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Colton Cowser vs Elieser Hernández
  3. 3+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Matt Olson vs Trevor Rogers

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

11 pitches went to the robots · 8 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Chadwick Tromp — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  8. 8Colton Cowser — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  9. 9Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  10. 10Leody Taveras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  11. 11Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 9 of 11 — 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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