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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-30

KC @ MIN

Home plate: Nick Mahrley

“Generous with the corners — the pitchers said thank you.”

C+
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, KC
3
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Nick Mahrley called the 134 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Royce Lewis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Josh Rojas — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Kody Clemens — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Ryan Jeffers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Austin Martin vs Noah Cameron
  2. 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Tyler Tolbert vs Yoendrys Gómez
  3. 3-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Austin Martin vs Noah Cameron

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

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

  1. 1Royce Lewis — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Isaac Collins — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Josh Rojas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Kody Clemens — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Ryan Jeffers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Salvador Perez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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