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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-27

BAL @ DET

Home plate: Bill Miller

Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.

A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, BAL
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Bill Miller called the 159 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 150 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: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Kevin McGonigle — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Chadwick Tromp — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.206 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Taylor Ward vs Drew Anderson
  2. 2+0.195 · 2-0 strike called ball
    Leody Taveras vs Keider Montero
  3. 3+0.136 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Taylor Ward vs Drew Anderson

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

3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Chadwick Tromp — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Kevin McGonigle — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Chadwick Tromp — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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