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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-28

CLE @ CIN

Home plate: Alfonso Márquez

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, CIN
4
ABS Overturns
of 8 reviewed

What this shows — how Alfonso Márquez called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Travis Bazzana — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Tyler Stephenson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Patrick Bailey — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Edwin Arroyo — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Elly De La Cruz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Brayan Rocchio — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).7Challenge 8: Sal Stewart — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).8
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.20▼9 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Elly De La Cruz vs Cade Smith
  2. 2+0.10▲1 · 0-1 strike called ball
    Travis Bazzana vs Chase Burns
  3. 3-0.10▼3 · 0-1 ball called strike
    JJ Bleday vs Slade Cecconi

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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Travis Bazzana — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Patrick Bailey — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Edwin Arroyo — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Elly De La Cruz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  7. 7Brayan Rocchio — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  8. 8Sal Stewart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 8 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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