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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.”

A
Umpire Grade
95.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, BAL
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. He got 151 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: Joey Bart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Leody Taveras — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Joey Bart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7Challenge 8: Colton Cowser — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (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 strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).11
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Leody Taveras vs Danny Young
  2. 2+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Colton Cowser vs Grant Holmes
  3. 3+0.19▼2 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Colton Cowser vs Grant Holmes

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

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 11 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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