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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-25

CHC @ PIT

Home plate: Cory Blaser

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, PIT
5
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Cory Blaser called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 141 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: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Dansby Swanson — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Miguel Amaya — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▲9 · 3-2 ball called strike
    Seiya Suzuki vs Tyler Callihan
  2. 2-0.39▲8 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Dansby Swanson vs Brandon Eisert
  3. 3-0.23▼9 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Jared Triolo vs Javier Assad

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

5 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Dansby Swanson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Miguel Amaya — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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